Word Meaning

beard definition and meaning

v. t. To support or sustain; to hold up.
v. t. To support and remove or carry; to convey.
v. t. To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons.
v. t. To possess and use, as power; to exercise.
v. t. To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription.
v. t. To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name.
v. t. To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor
v. t. To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer.
v. t. To gain or win.
v. t. To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc.
v. t. To render or give; to bring forward.
v. t. To carry on, or maintain; to have.
v. t. To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
v. t. To manage, wield, or direct.
v. t. To behave; to conduct.
v. t. To afford; to be to; to supply with.
v. t. To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest.
v. i. To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness.
v. i. To suffer, as in carrying a burden.
v. i. To endure with patience; to be patient.
v. i. To press; -- with on or upon, or against.
v. i. To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear.
v. i. To relate or refer; -- with on or upon; as, how does this bear on the question?
v. i. To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.
v. i. To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears N. by E.
n. A bier.
n. Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and insects.
n. An animal which has some resemblance to a bear in form or habits, but no real affinity; as, the woolly bear; ant bear; water bear; sea bear.
n. One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.
n. Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person.
n. A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.
n. A portable punching machine.
n. A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck.
v. t. To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market.
n. Alt. of Bere
n. The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.
n. The long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat.
n. The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds
n. The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
n. The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle.
n. The gills of some bivalves, as the oyster.
n. In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
n. Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain.
n. A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
n. That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
n. That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
n. An imposition; a trick.
v. t. To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
v. t. To oppose to the gills; to set at defiance.
v. t. To deprive of the gills; -- used only of oysters and similar shellfish.

Crossword clues for beard

- Carry
- Carry or convey
- Endure
- Endure grizzly or polar
- Give birth to
- Grizzly
- Grizzly creature
- Heavy carnivore
- Put up with
- Suffer to give birth
- Support a Russian symbol
- Tolerate
- Tolerate or endure
- Transport
- Undergo
- Yield (fruit)
- Bear with 500 whiskers
- Could be a short way to get facial hair
- facial hair
- Goat’s chin bristles
- Goatee
- Man’s whiskers