Meaning

• Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.

• The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.

• The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.

• The byssus of certain shellfish.

• The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.

• In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.

• Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.

  "the beard of grain"

• A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.

• The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to the axehandle.

• That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.

• That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.

• A fake customer or companion, especially a woman who accompanies a gay man in order to give the impression that he is heterosexual.

Meaning

• To grow hair on the chin and jaw.

• To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.

  "Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham."

• To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.

• To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.

• Of a gay man or woman: to accompany a gay person of the opposite sex in order to give the impression that they are heterosexual.