English

Verb

bearded

1. simple past tense and past participle of beard

Adjective

bearded ‎(comparative more bearded, superlative most bearded)

1. Having a beard; involving a beard.
   • c. 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act IV, Scene 1,

     Good sir, be a man: / Think every bearded fellow that's but yoked / May draw with you:

   • 1693, Juvenal, The Satyrs, translated by John Dryden and others, London: J. Tonson, 1735, 6th edition, Satyr VI, p. 80,

     There are who in soft Eunuchs place their Bliss; / To shun the Scrubbing of a bearded Kiss, / And 'scape Abortion; but their solid Joy / Is when the Page, already past a Boy, / Is Capon'd late; and to the Gelder shown, / With his two Pounders to Perfection grown. / When all the Navel string cou'd give, appears; / All but the Beard, and that's the Barber's loss, not theirs.

   • 1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, Chapter 12,

     He made us laugh till we cried, and, not altogether displeased at the effect, undersized and bearded to the waist like a gnome, he would tiptoe amongst us and say, "It's all very well for you beggars to laugh, but my immortal soul was shrivelled down to the size of a parched pea after a week of that work."

2. Having a fringe or appendage resembling a beard in some way (often followed by with).
   • 1847, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie, lines 1-3,

     This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, / Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, / Stand like Druids of eld […]

   • 1881, Oscar Wilde, "Panthea" in Poems, Boston: Roberts Brothers, p. 182,

     […] but the joyous sea / Shall be our raiment, and the bearded star / Shoot arrows at our pleasure!

   • 1894, A. E., "On a Hill-Top" in Homeward: Songs by the Way, London: John Lane, 1901, p. 42,

     Bearded with dewy grass the mountains thrust / Their blackness high into the still grey light,

3. (in combination) Having a beard (or similar appendage) of a specified type.
   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act I, Scene 1,

     […] who knows / If the scarce-bearded Caesar have not sent / His powerful mandate to you, ‘Do this, or this; Take in that kingdom, and enfranchise that; / Perform 't, or else we damn thee.’

   • 1855, Matthew Arnold, Balder Dead, Part II, lines 55-7, in The Poems of Matthew Arnold, 1840-1867, Oxford University Press, 1909, p. 248,

     […] for with his hammer Thor / Smote 'mid the rocks the lichen-bearded pines / And burst their roots […]

   • 1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian, Collins, 1998, Chapter 11,

     Down below that in the Great River, now at its coldest hour, the heads and shoulders of the nymphs, and the great weedy-bearded head of the river-god, rose from the water.

Derived terms

• bearded eagle
• bearded tortoise
• bearded vulture
• blue-bearded

Translations

Anagrams

• breaded
• derdeba