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61 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BARBED.4 (Noah Webster)
3. Shaved or trimmed; having the beard dressed.
62 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BEARD.1 (Noah Webster)
BEARD, n. berd. [L. barba.]
63 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BEARD.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The hair that grows on the chin, lips and adjacent parts of the face, chiefly of male adults; hence a mark of virility. A gray beard, long beard and reverend beard, are terms for old age.
64 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BEARD.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Beard is sometimes used for the face, and to do a thing to a man’s beard, is to do it in defiance, or to his face.
65 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BEARD.6 (Noah Webster)
5. The beard or chuck of a horse, is that part which bears the curb of a bridle, underneath the lower mandible and above the chin.
66 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BEARD.10 (Noah Webster)
BEARD, v.t. berd. To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard, in contempt or anger.
67 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BEARD.12 (Noah Webster)
I have been bearded by boys.
68 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BEARDED.1 (Noah Webster)
BEARDED, a. berd’ed. Having a beard, as a man. Having parallel hairs or tufts of hair, as the leaves of plants.
69 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BEARDED.3 (Noah Webster)
BEARDED, pp. berd’ed. Taken by the beard; opposed to the face.
70 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BEARD-GRASS.1 (Noah Webster)
BEARD-GRASS, n. A plant, the Andropogon.
71 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BEARDING.1 (Noah Webster)
BEARDING, ppr. berd’ing. Taking by the beard; opposing to the face.
72 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BEARDLESS.1 (Noah Webster)
BEARDLESS, a. berd’less. Without a beard; young; not having arrived to manhood. In botany, not having a tuft of hairs.
73 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BEARDLESSNESS.1 (Noah Webster)
BEARDLESSNESS, n. The state or quality of being destitute of beard.
74 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BURBOT.1 (Noah Webster)
BURBOT, n. [from L. barbatus, so named from its beard.]
75 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BURBOT.2 (Noah Webster)
A fish of the genus Gadus, shaped like an eel, but shorter, with a flat head, and on the nose it has two small beards, and another on the chin. It is disgusting in appearance, but delicate food. It is called also eel-pout.
76 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BUSHY.1 (Noah Webster)
BUSHY, a. [from bush.] Full of branches; thick and spreading, like a bush; as a bushy beard or brier.
77 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COMET.1 (Noah Webster)
… tailed, bearded or hairy, but these terms are taken from the appearance of the light which attends the, which, in different positions with respect to the sun …
78 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CORNER.8 (Noah Webster)
6. The end, extremity or limit; as the corners of the head or beard. Leviticus 21:5 and Leviticus 19:29 .
79 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CURB.2 (Noah Webster)
… the beard of the horse. It consists of three parts; the hook, fixed to the eye of the branch; the chain or links; and the two rings or mails.
80 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CUT.74 (Noah Webster)
11. Manner in which a thing is cut; form; shape; fashion; as the cut of a garment; the cut of his beard.