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• beard — n. 1) to grow a beard 2) to shave off; trim one s beard 3) to stroke one s beard 4) a bushy, heavy, rough, thick; light, sparse; neat, trim beard * * * [bɪəd] heavy light neat rough. thick sparse trim one …   Combinatory dictionary

• Beard —     Beard     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Beard     Among the Jews, as among most Oriental peoples, the beard was especially cherished as a symbol of virility; to cut off another man s beard was an outrage (II Kings, x, 4); to shave or to pluck one …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Beard — Bearded redirects here. For the British music magazine, see Bearded (magazine). For other uses, see Beard (disambiguation). Example of a full, untrimmed beard and moustache …   Wikipedia

• Beard Liberation Front — The Beard Liberation Front (BLF) is a British interest group which campaigns in support of beards and opposes discrimination against those who wear them. Founded in 1995 by socialist historian Keith Flett who continues to organise and represent… …   Wikipedia

• BEARD AND SHAVING — The characteristic manner in which the beard and hair were shaved, cut, curled, or groomed identified specific peoples in the ancient world. Egyptian, Assyrian, and Babylonian monuments depict the unique way various peoples treated facial hair,… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• shave — 01. He hasn t [shaved] for over a week, and he s starting to look pretty scruffy. 02. Bruny Surin [shaved] an incredible two one hundredths of a second off his previous fastest time in today s semi final. 03. I couldn t believe it when he… …   Grammatical examples in English

• shave — I. verb (shaved; shaved or shaven; shaving) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English scafan; akin to Lithuanian skobti to pluck, Latin scabere to scratch, and perhaps to Greek koptein to cut more at capon Date: before 12th century transitive… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Burma-Shave — famous for its advertising gimmick of posting humorous rhyming poems on small, consecutive highway billboard signs. TOC Burma Shave was introduced in 1925 by the Burma Vita company, owned by Clinton Odell. The company s original product was a… …   Wikipedia

• Playoff beard — A playoff beard is the superstitious practice of a National Hockey League player not shaving his beard during the Stanley Cup playoffs. The player stops shaving when his team enters the playoffs and does not shave until his team is eliminated or… …   Wikipedia

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• Dwarf (Warhammer) — This article is about dwarfs in Warhammer Fantasy. For other uses of the term, see dwarf (disambiguation). In Games Workshop s Warhammer Fantasy fictional universe, The Dwarfs are a race of short, stout humanoids very similar to the dwarves of… …   Wikipedia