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  • noun Plural form of beard.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beard.

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Examples

  • Instead, he determined that his was going to be the nuttiest Stan, a by-no-means uncompetitive field to those for whom the suffix conjures large numbers of excitable young chaps in beards jumping up and down shouting, “Death to the Great Satan!”

    One-Man Stan 2007

  • Instead, he determined that his was going to be the nuttiest Stan, a by-no-means uncompetitive field to those for whom the suffix conjures large numbers of excitable young chaps in beards jumping up and down shouting, “Death to the Great Satan!”

    One-Man Stan 2007

  • Instead, he determined that his was going to be the nuttiest Stan, a by-no-means uncompetitive field to those for whom the suffix conjures large numbers of excitable young chaps in beards jumping up and down shouting, “Death to the Great Satan!”

    One-Man Stan 2007

  • The nice sensibility of honor, which weighs the insult rather than the injury, sheds its deadly venom on the quarrels of the Arabs: the honor of their women, and of their beards, is most easily wounded; an indecent action, a contemptuous word, can be expiated only by the blood of the offender; and such is their patient inveteracy, that they expect whole months and years the opportunity of revenge.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • And what we have in San Francisco, among all of those beards, which is a completely accurate description, is a rookie catcher named Buster Posey, who's been fantastic and revolutionized that lineup.

    World Series Preview 2010

  • VAFIADIS: I cannot really say, but they didn't have long beards, which is a sign, you know, that they might be Taliban.

    CNN Transcript Nov 21, 2001 2001

  • Two or three of them have beards, which is against the best traditions of the Law.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-14 Various

  • Cut in a year, those who survived had grown young again, -- not shaven, perhaps, for their beards were a great natural comfort on winter duty, but brushed and washed, in vigorous health, and gay spirits.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 Various

  • The men are great and brown; and their beards -- Holy Cric! their beards are a bush for owls; and striped their shirt, jersey, what you call, and blue trousers.

    Rosin the Beau Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

  • We called their guardians and told them their boys have trimmed their beards, which is against the uniform rules of the madrassa.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

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