(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.
Pee
Definition:
(n.) See 1st Pea.
(n.) Bill of an anchor. See Peak, 3 (c).
Example Sentences:
(1) When you are not able to find a new [job], it might be challenging to put together resources to undergo the surgery if you do want it.” ‘What are they going to do at the door of every bathroom?’ What really worries activists is the enforcement of these “papers-to-pee” bills.
(2) In case the tidal volume was kept constant, increase of ventilatory rate resulted in a tremendous increase of lung volume, together with considerably higher levels of PEE.
(3) We describe a case of spontaneous perforation of the esophagus (PEE) that was satisfactorily treated by thoracotomy, primary closure and reinforcement of the suture with a gastric fundal patch (Thal plasty).
(4) But in all my travels up the M6 over the years I have never happened to need a pee between junctions 38 and 39, until last week.
(5) However often its members drop elderly patients or leave them to stew in their own pee, the RCN gracefully embraces the public's image of them as the National Union of Angels.
(6) After a few minutes I got the sense that this wasn't a good place for me to be hanging around, but I had to pee urgently.
(7) Because it is self-inflicted, hydra-headed and increasingly beyond our control, both politically and economically, at a time when Britain is losing friends fast by peeing on their chips.
(8) The next stage is that some owners will ban people from swimming, on the grounds that all that sweat, suntan oil and children's pee will ruin the Ph balance.
(9) "It's not true that girls can't pee," said Nora Dore, whose son Abdinasir runs the centre.
(10) As a further deterrent to potential anti-social tourists, the community group also placed signs around the city warning guests against urinating in the street – and threatening to “pee back” if they did.
(11) Community surveillance shows a 22.7% (p = 0.0008) decline in fatal and nonfatal acute myocardial infarction (AMI) rates during the period 1978 to 1985 in the Pee Dee area.
(12) I woke in the middle of the night to pee and thought I should use the opportunity to find out.
(13) It be like, at first, damn that is warm, and then I forget about it, because it just pee.” She could be lost to rage, but a rage every other New Yorker understands, one that comes from not suffering fools, especially people who take themselves far too seriously.
(14) High levels of PEE appear to damage the lung by favoring accumulation of liquid in the extravascular spaces of the lung.
(15) The reality for many disabled people is it’s a muddle and a minefield to have an easy pee.
(16) Instead, a predicted energy expenditure (PEE) is derived based on weight, heat loss, activity, growth requirements, and degree of stress.
(17) The idea is they will think twice next time about urinating in public.” She said the super-hard coating made the “bounce back” effect much stronger than when peeing on a regular wall.
(18) Our aim was to test this hypothesis by determining if resting energy expenditure (REE) measured by indirect calorimetry was greater than the predicted energy expenditure (PEE) calculated from the Harris-Benedict formula (variables--sex, age, height, and weight) in each patient.
(19) I would carefully arrange a coat over my knees under the train table and pee into a bottle held underneath my coat.” 'As the train empties, I worry I'll be forgotten': UK disability facilities Read more He said that he endured one particularly agonising train journey after returning from filming in India in 1999 suffering from a stomach upset only to discover there was no working disabled toilet.
(20) However, when this parameter was expressed as a ratio to the predicted energy expenditure (PEE), the ratio was significantly correlated with the postoperative excess weight loss at 2, 6, and 12 months.