bearded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: more bearded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bearded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a beard; involving a beard.
pos: adj
examples: (botany)
(zoology)
Good sir, be a man: / Think every bearded fellow that's but yoked / May draw with you:
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.
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.'
gloss: Having a fringe or appendage resembling a beard in some way (often followed by with).
pos: adj
examples: bearded mussel
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 [...]
[B]ut the joyous sea / Shall be our raiment, and the bearded star / Shoot arrows at our pleasure!
Bearded with dewy grass the mountains thrust / Their blackness high into the still grey light,
gloss: Of an axe: 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.
pos: adj
gloss: Having a beard (or similar appendage) of a specified type.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
examples: [...] 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.’
… for with his hammer Thor / Smote 'mid the rocks the lichen-bearded pines / And burst their roots …
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.
gloss: Having barbs of a certain color.
pos: adj
Antonyms: beardless
Derived words: bearded clam
bearded collie
bearded creeper
bearded dragon
bearded eagle
bearded hawksbeard
bearded iris
bearded lady
bearded lizard
bearded mountaineer
bearded mussel
beardedness
bearded parrotbill
bearded pig
Sus ahoenobarbus)
bearded reedling
bearded saki
bearded seal
bearded star
bearded tit
bearded tortoise
bearded vulture
blue-bearded
diabetic bearded woman syndrome
full-bearded
nonbearded
scraggle-bearded
unbearded
white-bearded antshrike
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