Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck. / The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.

(intransitive, obsolete) To grow hair on the chin and jaw. / (transitive) To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.

simple past tense and past participle of beard

Having a beard; involving a beard. / Having a fringe or appendage resembling a beard in some way (often followed by with).

(informal, botany, horticulture) A bearded iris.

plural of beard

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beard

present participle of beard

(television) An undesirable video artifact whereby darker parts of a signal bleed across horizontally into the brighter parts.

A surname transferred from the nickname.