beard splitter

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• Beard

  ·noun An imposition; a trick. II. Beard ·noun The gills of some bivalves, as the oyster. III. Bear...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Splitter

  ·noun One who, or that which, splits. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Beard

  The mode of wearing it was definitely prescribed to the Jews (Lev. 19:27; 21:5). Hence the import of...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• splitter

  n. a wood-cutter, cutting timberin the bush, and splitting it into posts and rails, palingsor shing...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• beard

  The silky filaments or byssus by which some testacea adhere to rocks. Of an oyster, the gills. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• splitter

  A man engaged in the Newfoundland fisheries to receive the fish from the header, and, with a sharp k...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Beard

  Western Asiatics have always cherished the beard as the badge of the dignity of manhood, and attache...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Phase splitter

  ·add. ·- A device by which a single-phase current is split into two or more currents differing in ph...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Vandyke beard

  ·add. ·- A trim, pointed beard, such as those often seen in pictures by Vandyke. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• grey beard

  Earthen jugs formerly used in public house for drawing ale: they had the figure of a man with a larg...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• hair splitter

  A man's yard. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• whisker splitter

  A man of intrigue. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose