What's the difference between beard and beardless?

Beard


Definition:

  • (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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While the papers in this country and the New Yorker were crowing about how Beard had, through her own gutsy initiative, tamed her trolls, another woman – Anita Sarkeesian, a Canadian-American journalist – was being trolled.
  • (2) I've seen DJs in clubs with beards that make them look more like Charles Manson on a scruffy day than the cutting edge of cool, but, apparently, the two are synonymous these days.
  • (3) With the help of yellow contact lenses, a false beard, nose and teeth, he has taken on the demeanour of a feral animal.
  • (4) Koji Uehara, the one without a beard, just picked up from where he left off in the regular season, and continued to destroy opponents.
  • (5) It's hard to imagine a more masculine character than Thor, who is based on the god of thunder of Norse myth: he's the strapping, hammer-wielding son of Odin who, more often than not, sports a beard and likes nothing better than smacking frost giants.
  • (6) Academic and TV historian Mary Beard has disclosed her innovative approach to dealing with her vitriolic Twitter trolls – writing them a job reference.
  • (7) And in a broader sense, the sort of Conservatives who think intelligently and strategically – and there are more of them than you think – fret that a bearded 66-year-old socialist has ignited political debate in a way that absolutely nobody in the mainstream predicted.
  • (8) Some of them are foreign, they have long beards and we don't want to go near them.
  • (9) In his passport photograph, applied for in June 2008, Brown has grown a beard and his temples have gone grey.
  • (10) As the sun rises over the precipitous streets of SanFrancisco's North Beach, just before 7am, there is a truly wonderful scene: corporation men spray the sidewalk while a gathering of bearded folk sip espressos at Caffe Trieste on the corner of Vallejo and Grant streets.
  • (11) Taylor, a sixty-something man with a neatly trimmed beard and a palpable pride in his business, has made "a couple of small sales" so far today, but footfall in the town is pretty underwhelming, and, in the market, almost non-existent.
  • (12) His beard, axillary hair and pubic hair were all normal.
  • (13) I do need a haircut, but I have had beards for many years.
  • (14) Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had grown a beard in the eight days before he carried out the attack and told friends “the significance of the beard is religious”, prosecutor François Molins told a press conference.
  • (15) Reading East's Rob Wilson attacked a whingeing bearded lefty, the archbishop of Canterbury.
  • (16) "Shave your beard if you're brown, and you best salute the crown, or they'll do you like Brazilians and shoot your arse down."
  • (17) Cue start of the second half, and he's back on, beard and all."
  • (18) The local undertakers were pleased to discover the great Henty to be the man they had always imagined - a full-bearded giant, stern and wise, dressed like a warrior hero or - much the same thing - a Victorian gentleman with the whiff of gunpowder and the clash of sabres about him.
  • (19) After weeks of unwashed silence he's finally dismantled his crisis-beard and returned his woollen catastrophe-hat to the BBC's Break In Case Of Homelessness box.
  • (20) Outside, there’s no sign of life except one bearded oaf on a chopper and a kid at the back door, holding a picture of Hot Fuss-era Brandon Flowers , praying for a brief encounter.

Beardless


Definition:

  • (a.) Without a beard. Hence: Not having arrived at puberty or manhood; youthful.
  • (a.) Destitute of an awn; as, beardless wheat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Other abnormal features in the family included precocious adrenarche, beardless males, eunuchoidism, and prepubertal grand mal seizures.
  • (2) A zoometric and yield study of the domestic Salvadorean hog in its three representative types: "chino" or beardless (CH), "negro" or black (N) and "parchado" or patched (P) in the birth-to-sacrifice stages, as well as in the carcasses, was carried out.
  • (3) Four of the species extinct in England also became extinct globally: the penguin-like great auk; Mitten's beardless moss; York groundsel, a weed only discovered in the 1970s; and the Ivell's sea anemone, last seen in a lagoon near Chichester.
  • (4) You may not agree with beardless election winners such as Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, George W Bush and Tony Blair, but there's a reason that William Howard Taft was the last US president with facial hair in 1913: beards were seen as being the preserve of hippies and communists, shaving a sign of respectability.

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