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.