beard

beard has 21 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• 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.