bearded

adj

1. Having a beard; involving a beard.

   “(botany)”

   “(zoology)”

   “Good sir, be a man: / Think every bearded fellow that's but yoked / May draw with you:”

   “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).

   “bearded mussel”

   “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 [...]”

   “[B]ut the joyous sea / Shall be our raiment, and the bearded star / Shoot arrows at our pleasure!”

   “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-compounds)Having a beard (or similar appendage) of a specified type.

   “[...] 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.’”

   “… for with his hammer Thor / Smote 'mid the rocks the lichen-bearded pines / And burst their roots …”

   “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. Having barbs of a certain color.

noun

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal)Ellipsis of bearded iris.

   “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.”

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of beard