Word Meanings - BEARDED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having a beard. "Bearded fellow." Shak. "Bearded grain." Dryden. Bearded vulture, Bearded eagle. See Lammergeir. -- Bearded tortoise. See Matamata.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• GRAINED
  Having tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or sepals of some flowers. (more info) 1. Having a grain; divided into small particles or grains; showing the grain; hence, rough. 2. Dyed in grain; ingrained. Persons lightly dipped,
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• FELLOW-COMMONER
  A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
• EAGLESTONE
  A concretionary nodule of clay ironstone, of the size of a walnut or larger, so called by the ancients, who believed that the eagle transported these stones to her nest to facilitate the laying of her eggs; aëtites.
• EAGLEWOOD
  A kind of fragrant wood. See Agallochum.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• FELLOWSHIP
  1. The state or relation of being or associate. 2. Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse. In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods.
• FELLOWSHIP; GOOD FELLOWSHIP
  companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• VULTURE
  Any one of numerous species of rapacious birds belonging to Vultur, Cathartes, Catharista, and various other genera of the family Vulturidæ. Note: In most of the species the head and neck are naked or nearly so. They feed chiefly on carrion. The
• GRAINING
  The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt. (more info) 1. Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins. Locke. 2. A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised. 3. Painting
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• FELLOW-FEELING
  1. Sympathy; a like feeling. 2. Joint interest. Arbuthnot.
• FELLOWLIKE
  Like a companion; companionable; on equal terms; sympathetic. Udall.
• FELLOWLY
  Fellowlike. Shak.
• BEARDLESSNESS
  The state or quality of being destitute of beard.
• GRAINY
  Resembling grains; granular.
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• HAVANA
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
• INGRAIN
  1. Dyed with grain, or kermes. 2. Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance. Ingrain carpet, a double or two-ply carpet. --
• SEABEARD
  A green seaweed growing in dense tufts.
• CROSSGRAINED
  1. Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon.
• BLUEBEARD
  The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it
• BEDFELLOW
  One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• FELT GRAIN
  , the grain of timber which is transverse to the annular rings or plates; the direction of the medullary rays in oak and some other timber. Knight.
• MIGRAINE
  See A
• GRAYBEARD
  An old man. Shak.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• FORKBEARD
  A European fish , having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard. The European forked hake or hake's-dame ; -- also called great forked beard.