bearbine 
The bearbine with the lilac interlaced. 
llixiil, Haunted House-, i. -24. 
bear-caterpillar (bar'kat ''er-pil-iir), n. A liirva 
of one of trie bombycid moths : so called from 
its hairiness. See cut under briir'-. 
bear-cloth (bar'kloth), n. Same as bearing- 
cloth. 
beard (berd), n. [< ME. lu-rde, bird, < AS. 
beard = I), board = OPries. berd = OHG. 
MHG. G. bart = leel. -b<irdlu; in comp. (<-f. 
neut. bardh, brim, beak of a ship (see bard'*): 
the ordinary term for 'beard' is skegij = E. 
xling) = OBulg. Serv. Bohem. lirada = Pol. 
broda = Russ. boroda = Litli. barxda, barza = 
Lett, bfirda = Ol j russ. Iwrtlun, and prob. = 
L. bin-lia (> E. biirbl), W. and Corn, barf, a 
beard. The agreement in spoiling between 
mod. E. and AS. Ix-ard is merely accidental: 
see ea.~\ 1. The close growth of hair on the 
chin and parts of the face normally character- 
istic of an adult man; more specifically, the 
hair of the face and chin when allowed to re- 
main wholly or in part unshaved, that on the 
upper lip being distinguished as the muxtnclir, 
and the remainder as the whiskcru, or the side- 
whiskers, chili-whiskers or -beard, etc., according 
as the beard is trimmed: as, to wear a beard, 
or a full beard. 2. In sool., some part or ap- 
pendage likened to the human beard. (,/) in 
iiiniiimiil.. Inn),' hairs iiliout the head, as on a goat's chin, 
etc. (b) In urnith., a cluster of flue feathers at the base 
of the beak, as ill the bearded vulture and bearded tit. 
In some breeds of the common hen, as the bearded Polish, 
the Houdan, and the Russian, this appendage has been 
made, by selection, very full. The feathers are supported 
by a pendulous fold of skin, and often extend up to the 
eyes, (c) In ichth., the barbels of a fish, as the loach and 
catfish, (d) In conch. : (1) The byssus of some bivalves, 
as the mussel. (2) The gills of some bivalves, as the oyster. 
(c) In entom., one of a pair of small fleshy bodies of some 
lepidopterous and dipterous insects. (/) Whalebone. 
3. In bot. : (a) A crest, tuft, or covering of 
spreading hairs. (6) The awn or bristle-like 
appendage upon the chaff of grain and other 
grasses. See cut under barley, (c) With some 
authors, a name given to the lower lip of a 
ringent corolla. 4. A barb or sharp process 
of an arrow, a fish-hook, or other instrument, 
bent backward from the point, to prevent it 
from being easily drawn out. 5. The hook 
for retaining the yarn at the extremity of the 
needle in a knitting-machine. 6. In organ- 
building, a spring-piece on the back of a lock- 
bolt to hold it moderately firm and prevent it 
from rattling in its guides. 7. The part of a 
horse which bears the curb of a bridle, under- 
neath the lower mandible and above the chin. 
8. The train of a comet when the comet is reced- 
ing from the sun (in which case i 
the train precedes the head). 
9. Inprinting, the outward-slop- 
ing part of a type which con- 
nects the face with the shoulder 
of the body. It is obsolete, type 
being now made with high 
square shoulders, to lighten the 
work of the electrotyper. 10. 
The sharp edge of a board. 
False beard. in Egypt, antiq., asingu- 
lar artificial beard, often represented 
on monuments and mummy-cases, held 
under the chin by bands attached to 
the wearer's casque or head-dress. To 
make one's beardt, literally, to dress 
one's beard ; hence, to play a trick up- 
on ; deceive ; cheat. 
Yet can a miller make a clerkes berd, 
For al his art. Chaucer, Reeve's Tale, 1. 175. 
Mo berdes in two houres 
( Withoute rasour or sisoures) 
Ymade, then greynes be of sondes. 
Chaucer, House of Fame, 1. 181. 
To one's beard, to one's face ; in defiance of one. 
Rail'd at their covenant, and jeer'd 
Their revVend persons to my beard. 
S. Butler, Hudibras. 
beard (berd), r. [< late ME. bcrdc; from the 
noun.] I. trans. 1. To take by the beard; 
seize, pluck, or pull the beard of, in contempt 
Granger. Hence 2. Figuratively, to oppose 
to the face ; set at defiance. 
' It is to them most disgraceful!, to be bearded of such a 
base varlett. Spenser, State of Ireland. 
Dar'st thou then 
To beard the lion in his den, 
The Douglas in his hall '.' 
Scott, Marmion, vi. 14. 
3. To furnish with a beard, in any sense of the 
word. 4. In carp., to chip, plane, or otherwise 
diminish from a given line or to a given curve : 
as. to beard clamps, plank-sheers, etc. ; in ship- 
building, to round, as the adjacent parts of the 
rudder and stern-post, or the dead-wood, so as 
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to adapt them to the shape of the vessel. 5. 
To remove the beard or fringe from, as from 
oysters. 
II. intrans. To grow a beard, or become 
bearded. [Kare]. 
Nor laughing girl, nor ln'tirdinn boy, 
Nor full-pulsed manhood, lingering here, 
Shall add, to lite s alionrnliir-: joy, 
The charmed repose to suffering dear. 
\\'httti<',-. Summer by Lakeside. 
bearded (ber'ded), a. [< ME. herded; < beard 
-t- -erf 52 .] 1. Having a beard. 
Then a soldier, 
Full of strange oaths, and teanli'il like the pard. 
,v/,ir/,.. As yon Like it, ii. 7. 
It is good to steal away from the society of Iminlnl men, 
and even of gentler woman, and spend an tioui or to \\ ith 
children. //" " ti">i t" . Tu :'e-Told Tales, I. 
2. In her. : (a) Same as barbed 1 , 3. (/)) Having 
a train like that of a comet or meteor (which 
see). 3. IneMtow*.: (a) Having a toft of bain 
on the clypeus, overhanging the mouth. (6) 
Covered on one side with short and thickly set 
hairs: said of anteunte. Bearded argall. sci ar- 
ijali. Bearded griffin. See i/rij/m. Bearded tit. 
bearded titmouse, the J'tmuru* iiim-mim*. Bearded 
vulture, ttie t;<ii,<i<'i n* ixn-iiatiin. 
beard-grass (berd'gras), n. The common name 
of (a) some species of I'olypogon, especially /'. 
Miiiixpelieiisis and /'. liltornlin, from the dense- 
ly bearded appearance of tho close panicles; 
(Ii) some common species of Andropot/oit, as A. 
nutans, A. sciiparius, etc. Woolly beard-grass, a 
name given to species of Erianthus. Naked beard- 
bearing 
liniil.-iiig and i-nni., one who holds or presents 
for payment a check or order for money, pay- 
ment of which is not limited liy the drawer 
to a specified individual or linn. Cheeks pay- 
able to bearer need no indorsement. 6. One 
who wears anything, as a badge or sword; a 
wearer. 
Tlmn [the riounj. most fine, most hnnour'd, most re- 
nown .1, 
Hast eai thy Ix-arrr up. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iv. 4. 
6. In old law, one who bears down or oppresses 
others by vexatiously assisting a third party in 
maintaining a suit against them; a maintainor. 
7. Any part of a structure or machine ihat 
serves as a support to some other part M) A 
support for the tire-bars of a furnace. (/<) The support of 
the puppets in a lathe. (') /</. In a fnttiti'i mill, the hous- 
ings or standards in which the roller-gudgeons turn. (>/) 
due of the sirips whirh extend over a mold ing-trough and 
serve to support the flask. 
8. In /iriiiting : (a) A strip of wood or metal, 
type-high, put in any exposed place in a form 
of type or on a press, for the purpose of bearing 
off impression and preventing injury to type or 
woodcuts, (b) pi. Type-high pieces of metal 
placed in the very open spaces and over the 
heads of pages to bo stereotyped, and also type- 
high strips of metal placed around pages or 
forms to be electrotyped, to prevent injury to 
the face of the type or the plates in the subse- 
quent processes, and cut away from the plates 
before printing. 9. In her., a supporter. 10f. 
A roll of padding forming a kind of bustle, for- 
r'di Same 
bearding-line (ber'ding-lln), n. Same as beard- fnut or flowers - 
1 Tilis way of P rocurm 8 autumnal roses, in some that are 
ina 
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beardless (berd'les), a. [< ME. bcrdles, < AS. 
good bearers, will succeed. 

Boyle. 
, . . , . 
beardleds, < beard, beard, + leds, -less.] 1. bearer-bar (bar'er-bar), n. One of the bars 
Without a beard; hence, of persons of the male which support the grate-bars in a furnace. 
sex, immature; adolescent: as, a beardless bearer-pin (bar'er-pin), n. A pin separating 
youth. 2. In ornith., having no rietal vibris- tne strings of a piano at the point where the 
ste: as, the beardless flycatcher, Orniihium im- length is determined. Wor. Supp. 
berbe. 3. In ichth., having no barbels. 4. In bear-garden (bar'gar'dn), n. 1. A place where 
bot., without beard or awn.- Beardless dram, the bears are ?* for tne diversion of spectators. 
redftsli or branded drum, Seiama oceUata, which has no The bear-garden in London in Elizabeth's reign 
barbels. See cut under redjish. was also called Paris-garden and bear's-college. 
beardlesSneSS (berd'les-nes), n. The State or Hurrying me from the playhouse, and the scenes there, 
condition of being beardless. to the bear-garden, to the apes, and asses, and tigers. 
beardleted (berd'let-ed), a. [< "beardlet, dim. SMUnyjteet. 
of beard (of. bttrbule), + -ed 2 .] In bot., having 2. Figuratively, any place of tumult or disorder. 
little awns. Paxton. Those days when slavery turned the Senate-chamber into 
beardling (berd'ling), n. One who wears a a bear-garden. N. A. Ren., CXXVI. 11. 
beard ; formerly, in contrast with shaveling, a bear-grass (bar'gras), n. A name given to the 
layman. [Rare.] camass, Camassia esculenta, of Oregon; also, 
beard-moss (berd'm6s), n. A name of the in Texas, to Dasylirion Texanum, the young 
lichen Usnea barbata, which, often intermixed pulpy stems of which are much eaten by bears ; 
with others, clothes forest-trees with the an a to species of the genus Yucca, for the same 
shaggy gray fleece of its pendulous thread-like reason. 
branches; the "idle moss "of Shakspere (C. of bearherd (bar'herd), n. A man who tends 
E. , ii. 2) . bears ; a bearward. 
bear-dog (bar dog), . A dog for baiting bears. 
Fal sc Beard, as 
SEStiMS" o a f 
Kameses II. at Abou- 
Simbel. 
True. You fought high and fair. . . . 
Daup. Like an excellent bear-dag. 
B. Jonson, Epiccene, iv. 1. 
beard-tongue (berd'tung), n. A name given 
to plants i of the genus ^'entstemo,,, with refer- 
ence to the bearded sterile stamen. 
beardy (ber'di), n.; pi. beardies (-diz). [Dim. of 
' 
vlrtue ta of go little regard ln these C08te rmonger times, 
that true valour is turned bearherd. 
Shak., 2 Hen. IV., i. 2. 
aj..^^,! (bar'hound), n. A hound for hunt- 
ing or baitin g the bear. 
Wolf-hounds shall fall sup- 
presoed, the Bear-hound, the Falconry. 
CarlyU, French Rev., I. ill. l. 
beard'.'} 1. A name of the white-throat, Sylvia bearing (bar'ing), n. [< ME. beriiig, beryng; 
cinerea. Macgillivray. [Local, British.] 2. In verbal n. of feearl.] If. Support, as of a prin- 
Scotland, a name of the loach, Nemachilus bar- - - 
batulux, a small fresh-water malacopterygian 
fish, family Cyprinidai: so called from the six 
barbules that hang from the mouth. Also spell- 
ed beardie. 
bearer (bar'er), n. [ME. berer, berere ; < bear 1 + 
-er 1 .] 1. One who bears, carries, or sustains; 
a carrier; specifically, one who carries any- 
thing as the attendant of another: as, St. Chris- 
topher, or the Christ-dearer (the meaning of 
the name) ; a sword-ftearer, an armor-frearer, a 
palanquin-fteorer, etc. 
His armour-bearer said unto him, Do all that is in thine 
heart. 1 Sam. xiv. 7. 
Forgive the bearer of unhappy news : 
Your alter'd father openly pursues 
Your ruin. 
ciple or an action ; maintenance ; defense. 
I speak against the bearing of bloodshed : this bearing 
must be looked upon. 
Latimer, 5th Serm. bef. Edw. VI., 1649. 
2. The act of enduring, especially of enduring 
patiently or without complaining; endurance. 
The two powers which constitute a wise woman are 
those of bearing and forbearing. Epictetui (trans.). 
3. The manner in which a person bears or 
comports himself ; carriage; mien; behavior. 
A man of good repute, carriage, bearing, and estimation. 
Shak., L. L. L., i. 1. 
I had reason to dread a fair outside, to mistrust a pop- 
ular bearing, to shudder before distinction, grace, and 
courtesy. Charlotte Bronte, Shirley, xxiv. 
Dryden ^- ^ ne m utual relation of the parts of a whole ; 
2. One who carries a body to the grave; a mode of connection, 
pall-bearer. 3. In India : (a) A palanquin-car- 
rier, (b) A domestic servant who has charge 
of his master's clothes, furniture, etc. 4. In 
But of this frame the b^aringx and the ties, 
The strong connections, nice dependencies, 
Gradations just, has thy pervading soul 
Look'd through? Pope, Essay on Man, i. 29 
