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Substantiivit

1. Facial hair on the chin, cheeks and jaw.
2. The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
3. The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
4. The byssus of certain shellfish.
5. The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
6. In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
7. (botany) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.
8. A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
9. That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
10. (printing, dated) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
11. (LGBT, slang) A woman who accompanies a gay male in order to give the impression that he is heterosexual.

Verbit

1. (obsolete) To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
2. To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.
3. (transitive) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
4. (transitive) To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.