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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Beard \Beard\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bearded}; p. pr & vb n. {Bearding}.] 1. To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt. 2. To oppose to the gills; to set at defiance. No admiral, bearded by three corrupt and dissolute minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter something about a court martial. --Macaulay. 3. To deprive of the gills; -- used only of oysters and similar shellfish.
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