(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.
Mustache
Definition:
(n.) That part of the beard which grows on the upper lip; hair left growing above the mouth.
(n.) A West African monkey (Cercopithecus cephus). It has yellow whiskers, and a triangular blue mark on the nose.
(n.) Any conspicuous stripe of color on the side of the head, beneath the eye of a bird.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mustached bats, Pteronotus p. parnellii, use complex, multiharmonic biosonar signals with prominent approx.
(2) She writes: It used to be that evil finance plots at least had the dignity to be conducted in back rooms, with much mustache-twirling and fondling of watch fobs as well as hearty, if ominous laughs.
(3) The mustache bat, Pteronotus parnellii rubiginosus, emits orientation sounds containing a long constant-frequency (CF) component that is ideal for echo detection and Doppler shift measurement.
(4) The mustached bat's biosonar signal consists of four harmonics, of which the second (H2) is the most intense.
(5) The ear of the mustached bat (Pteronotus parnellii) shows marked cochlear resonance near 60 kHz and many sharply tuned neurons throughout the brain have best frequencies (BF) near the cochlear resonance frequency (CRF).
(6) The sense of hearing in the mustached bat, Pteronotus parnellii, is specialized for fine frequency analysis in three narrow bands that correspond to approx 30, 60 and 90 kHz constant frequency harmonics in the biosonar signals used for Doppler-shift compensation and acoustic imaging of the environment.
(7) In this study it is shown that: 1) any sounds near the resonance frequency elicit a pronounced resonance that continues after the stimulus terminates; 2) Doppler-shifted echoes of the bat's own cries may cause resonance; 3) continuous resonance can be produced by stimulating the ear with broadband noise but such resonance does not interfere with the bat's ability to Doppler-shift compensate during simulated flight; 4) significant changes in the resonance frequency of the cochlea occur during and after flight; 5) the changes in resonance can be dependent or independent of body temperature changes; and 6) mustached bats continuously adjust the CF component of their pulses to keep the second harmonic echoes in a constant frequency band near the resonance frequency.
(8) These results show the general tonotopy of the mustache bat's brainstem auditory nuclei, and with respect to the dorsoposterior division, clearly reveal the total set of projections to a single isofrequency region.
(9) Most MSO neurons in the mustached bat are monaural, excited by a contralateral sound.
(10) Delay-tuned combination-sensitive neurons (FM-FM neurons) have been discovered in the dorsal and medial divisions of the medial geniculate body (MGB) of the mustached bat (Pteronotus parnellii).
(11) In the companion paper we investigated, in the central nucleus of the inferior colliculus, the representation of the predominant second-harmonic frequency-modulated component (FM2) of the mustached bat biosonar signal (O'Neill et al.
(12) FM-FM neurons in the auditory cortex of the mustached bat, Pteronotus parnellii, are specialized to process target range.
(13) The orientation sound of the mustache bat (Pteronotus parnellii rubiginosus) invariably consists of long constant-frequency and short frequency-modulated components and is indispensable for its survival.
(14) The representation in the inferior colliculus of the frequency modulated (FM) components of the first (25-30 kHz) and second (50-60 kHz) harmonic of the sonar signal of the mustached bat, which may be important for target range processing, was investigated by using the 2-deoxyglucose (2-DG) technique and single-unit mapping.
(15) By referring the echo from a target to the emitted pulse, the mustached bat derives velocity information from Doppler shift and distance information from echo delay.
(16) Of 311 single units studied in the central nucleus of the inferior colliculus (ICC) in 18 mustached bats (Pteronotus parnelli), a small but significant population (13%) of cells with on-off discharge patterns to tone bursts at best frequency (BF) was found in the dorsoposterior division.
(17) The biosonar pulse (P) and its echo (E) produced and heard by the mustached bat consist of four harmonics; each harmonic contains a constant frequency (CF) component and a frequency modulated (FM) component.
(18) In the cerebellum of the mustached bat, auditory neurons are predominantly tuned to frequencies within the bands between 23 and 30, 55 and 63, or 85 and 94 kHz, which are found in the first, second, and third harmonics of bat's biosonar signals, respectively.
(19) To ascertain the directional characteristics of the auditory system in the mustached bat, Pteronotus parnellii, we measured the summated neural response at the lateral lemniscus (N4) in response to pure tones at 30, 60 and 90 kHz, frequencies that are typical of the harmonics of this species' biosonar signal.
(20) 30, 60, 90 kHz) of the mustached bat biosonar signal were measured from vocalizations elicited by cortical microstimulation.