·add. ·- A trim, pointed beard, such as those often seen in pictures by Vandyke.
·noun A picture by Vandyke. Also, a Vandyke collar, or a Vandyke edge. II. Vandyke ·vt fit or furni...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·noun An imposition; a trick. II. Beard ·noun The gills of some bivalves, as the oyster. III. Bear...
The mode of wearing it was definitely prescribed to the Jews (Lev. 19:27; 21:5). Hence the import of...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
The silky filaments or byssus by which some testacea adhere to rocks. Of an oyster, the gills. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Western Asiatics have always cherished the beard as the badge of the dignity of manhood, and attache...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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...