The silky filaments or byssus by which some testacea adhere to rocks. Of an oyster, the gills.
·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
The mode of wearing it was definitely prescribed to the Jews (Lev. 19:27; 21:5). Hence the import of...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
Western Asiatics have always cherished the beard as the badge of the dignity of manhood, and attache...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
·add. ·- A trim, pointed beard, such as those often seen in pictures by Vandyke. ...
A man much given to wenching. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Earthen jugs formerly used in public house for drawing ale: they had the figure of a man with a larg...