bearded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪədɪd/
ipa: /ˈbɪədəd/
ipa: /ˈbɪɹdəd/
ipa: /ˈbiɚdəd/
Forms: form: more bearded
form: most bearded
Etymology: From Middle English berded, either from Old English ġebearded or formed anew in Middle English; by surface analysis, beard + -ed. Compare Dutch bebaarde (“bearded”), Middle Low German bārt (“bearded”), archaic German gebartet (“bearded”).
Senses: examples: text: Good sir, be a man: / Think every bearded fellow that's but yoked / May draw with you:
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: 1693, Juvenal, The Satyrs, translated by John Dryden and others, London: J. Tonson, 1735, 6th edition, Satyr VI, p. 80, https://archive.org/details/satyrsdecimusju00creegoog
There are who in soft Eunuchs place their Bliss; / To shun the Scrubbing of a bearded Kiss, / And 'scape Abortion; but their solid Joy / Is when the Page, already past a Boy, / Is Capon'd late; and to the Gelder shown, / With his two Pounders to Perfection grown. / When all the Navel string cou'd give, appears; / All but the Beard, and that's the Barber's loss, not theirs.
text: He made us laugh till we cried, and, not altogether displeased at the effect, undersized and bearded to the waist like a gnome, he would tiptoe amongst us and say, 'It's all very well for you beggars to laugh, but my immortal soul was shrivelled down to the size of a parched pea after a week of that work.'
ref: 1899 September – 1900 July, Joseph Conrad, chapter XII, in Lord Jim: A Tale, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1900, →OCLC, page 160:
glosses: Having a beard; involving a beard.
examples: text: This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, / Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, / Stand like Druids of eld [...]
ref: 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II), lines 1-3:
text: [...] but the joyous sea / Shall be our raiment, and the bearded star / Shoot arrows at our pleasure!
ref: 1881, Oscar Wilde, “Panthea”, in Poems, Boston: Roberts Brothers, page 182:
text: Bearded with dewy grass the mountains thrust / Their blackness high into the still grey light,
ref: 1894, A. E., “On a Hill-Top”, in Homeward: Songs by the Way, London: John Lane, published 1901, page 42:
glosses: Having a fringe or appendage resembling a beard in some way (often followed by with).
qualifier: Of an axe
glosses: having the lower portion of the axehead extending the cutting edge significantly below the width of the butt, thus providing a wide cutting surface while keeping overall weight low.
examples: text: [...] who knows / If the scarce-bearded Caesar have not sent / His powerful mandate to you, ‘Do this, or this; Take in that kingdom, and enfranchise that; / Perform 't, or else we damn thee.’
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: … for with his hammer Thor / Smote 'mid the rocks the lichen-bearded pines / And burst their roots …
ref: 1855, Matthew Arnold, Balder Dead, Part II, lines 55-7, in The Poems of Matthew Arnold, 1840-1867, Oxford University Press, 1909, p. 248, https://archive.org/details/cu31924013206499
text: Down below that in the Great River, now at its coldest hour, the heads and shoulders of the nymphs, and the great weedy-bearded head of the river-god, rose from the water.
ref: 1951, C. S. Lewis, chapter 11, in Prince Caspian, Collins, published 1998:
glosses: Having a beard (or similar appendage) of a specified type.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
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glosses: Having barbs of a certain color.
Synonyms: word: barbigerous
word: beardy
word: be-bearded
topics: botany
biology
natural-sciences
word: awny
word: barbate
word: barbed
topics: zoology
biology
natural-sciences
botany
biology
natural-sciences
word: bristly
topics: heraldry
hobbies
nobility
monarchy
politics
government
lifestyle
word: barbed
Derived terms: bearded clam
bearded collie
bearded creeper
bearded dragon
bearded eagle
bearded hawksbeard
bearded iris
bearded lady
bearded lizard
bearded mountaineer
bearded mussel
beardedness
bearded pig
bearded reedling
bearded saki
bearded seal
bearded star
bearded tit
bearded tortoise
bearded vulture
black-bearded
blue-bearded
chin-bearded
common bearded dragon
diabetic bearded woman syndrome
eastern bearded dragon
full-bearded
green-bearded
nonbearded
red-bearded
scraggle-bearded
unbearded>black bearded saki
Uta Hick's bearded saki
white-bearded antshrike
yellow-bearded