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Word Meanings - DEBARB - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To deprive of the beard. Bailey.

Related words: (words related to DEBARB)

  • DEPRIVEMENT
    Deprivation.
  • BAILEY
    ballium bailey, OF. bail, baille, a palisade, baillier to inclose, 1. The outer wall of a feudal castle. 2. The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress. 3. A prison or court of justice; -- used in certain proper names; as,
  • BEARDLESSNESS
    The state or quality of being destitute of beard.
  • BEARDIE
    The bearded loach of Europe.
  • BEARDLESS
    1. Without a beard. Hence: Not having arrived at puberty or manhood; youthful. 2. Destitute of an awn; as, beardless wheat.
  • DEPRIVER
    One who, or that which, deprives.
  • BEARDED
    Having a beard. "Bearded fellow." Shak. "Bearded grain." Dryden. Bearded vulture, Bearded eagle. See Lammergeir. -- Bearded tortoise. See Matamata.
  • DEPRIVE
    1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. 'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. Shak. 2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of. God hath
  • BEARD
    Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain. 4. A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out. 5. That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw
  • SEABEARD
    A green seaweed growing in dense tufts.
  • BLUEBEARD
    The hero of a mediƦval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it
  • GRAYBEARD
    An old man. Shak.
  • FORKBEARD
    A European fish , having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard. The European forked hake or hake's-dame ; -- also called great forked beard.
  • TREEBEARD
    A pendulous branching lichen ; -- so called from its resemblance to hair.
  • WHITEBEARD
    An old man; a graybeard.
  • VANDYKE BEARD
    A trim, pointed beard, such as those often seen in pictures by Vandyke.

 

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