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bearded

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English berded, either from Old English ġebearded or formed anew in Middle English;[1] by surface analysis, beard +‎ -ed. Compare Dutch bebaarde (“bearded”), Middle Low German bārt (“bearded”), archaic German gebartet (“bearded”).

Adjective

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bearded (comparative more bearded, superlative most bearded) (possessional)

  1. Having a beard; involving a beard.
    • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
      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, [1]
      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.
    • 1899 September – 1900 July, Joseph Conrad, chapter XII, in Lord Jim: A Tale, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1900, →OCLC, page 160:
      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 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II), 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, London: David Bogue, […], →OCLC, page 184:
      [B]ut 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[2], London: John Lane, published 1901, page 42:
      Bearded with dewy grass the mountains thrust / Their blackness high into the still grey light,
  3. Of an axe: having the lower portion of the axehead extending the cutting edge significantly below the width of the butt, thus providing a wide cutting surface while keeping overall weight low.
  4. (in combination) Having a beard (or similar appendage) of a specified type.
    • c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
      [...] 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, [3]
      [...] for with his hammer Thor / Smote 'mid the rocks the lichen-bearded pines / And burst their roots [...]
    • 1951, C. S. Lewis, chapter 11, in Prince Caspian, Collins, published 1998:
      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.
  5. (heraldry) Having barbs of a certain color.
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Noun

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bearded (plural beardeds)

  1. (informal, botany, horticulture) Ellipsis of bearded iris.
    • 2017, Barbara W. Ellis, “Iris: Irises”, in Taylor's Guide to Growing North America's Favorite Plants: Proven Perennials, Annuals, Flowering Trees, Shrubs, & Vines for Every Garden, New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 181:
      The herbaceous perennial irises benefit from at least one feeding a year in early spring as growth begins. Siberian and Japanese irises appreciate a second feeding just as the flowers fade. Beardeds do best with a second feeding in late summer.

Etymology 2

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From beard +‎ -ed.

Verb

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bearded

  1. simple past and past participle of beard

References

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  1. ^ Don Ringe (2021), A Historical Morphology of English (Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language – Advanced), Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 149: “ModE bearded is probably not a direct descendant of OE ġebearded, since the modern word does not seem to be attested before the late fourteenth century.”

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