คำว่า ' beard ' ( N )
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คำนิยามในภาษาอังกฤษ (definition) :
[n.] The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.
[n.] The long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat.
[n.] The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds
[n.] The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
[n.] The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle.
[n.] The gills of some bivalves, as the oyster.
[n.] In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
[n.] Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain.
[n.] A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
[n.] That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
[n.] That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
[n.] An imposition; a trick.
[v. t.] To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
[v. t.] To oppose to the gills; to set at defiance.
[v. t.] To deprive of the gills; -- used only of oysters and similar shellfish.