What is the name meaning of BEARD. Phrases containing BEARD
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BEARD
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English
English : possibly a variant of Bardsley, or alternatively a habitational name from an unidentified place (possibly in Nottinghamshire, where the surname is particularly common).William Beardsley, mason, came to New England in 1635 from London aboard the Planter.
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English (Nottinghamshire)
English (Nottinghamshire) : possibly a habitational name from Beard Hall Farm in Derbyshire, named with Old English brerd ‘edge’, ‘hillside’ + hall ‘hall’, ‘manor house’.Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Bärt(h)el (see Bartel).
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French
Bearded.
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English (Devon)
English (Devon) : probably a variant of Beard.
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French
With whiskers, bearded. In Norman times, when most men were clean-shaven, this nickname was given...
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English
English : variant spelling of Bird.Jewish (from Poland and Ukraine) : nickname for a man with a notable beard, from a southern Yiddish pronunciation of Yiddish bord ‘beard’
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British, English
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English
English : metonymic occupational name for a maker of razors or a barber, from Old French rasor, rasur ‘razor’.Humanist Latinized form of the German occupational name Bartscherer ‘barber’ (literally ‘beard cutter’), recorded as early as the 14th century.
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English
English : occupational name for a barber, Anglo-Norman French barber, Old French barbier, from Late Latin barbarius, a derivative of barba ‘beard’. In the Middle Ages barbers not only cut hair and shaved beards, but also practised surgery and pulled teeth.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name from German Barbier ‘barber’.Catalan : occupational name for a barber, barber (see 1).Americanized form of any of numerous cognates of 1 in different languages, for example Spanish Barbero, Portuguese Barbeiro, French Barbier, Italian Barbieri.
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English
English : probably a habitational name from some lost place (probably in Staffordshire, where the surname is particularly common).
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English
English : probably a variant of Bearden.
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English
English : habitational name from Bardwell in Suffolk, so named with an unattested Old English byname Bearda, a derivative of beard (see Beard) + Old English well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’. Alternatively, the first element may be from a dissimilated form of Old English bre(o)rd ‘brim’, ‘bank’.
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English
English : variant spelling of Gulick.Dutch (van Gullick) : habitational name for someone from Jülich (Dutch Gulik) in North Rhine-Westphalia.Altered spelling of German Gullich or Güllich, nickname for a bald or clean-shaven man, from Slavic (Sorbian) holy ‘naked’, ‘beardless’. Compare Gulledge.
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English
English : nickname for someone with gray hair or a gray beard, from Old English græg ‘gray’. In Scotland and Ireland it has been used as a translation of various Gaelic surnames derived from riabhach ‘brindled’, ‘gray’ (see Reavey). In North America this name has assimilated names with similar meaning from other European languages.English and Scottish (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Graye in Calvados, France, named from the Gallo-Roman personal name Gratus, meaning ‘welcome’, ‘pleasing’ + the locative suffix -acum.French and Swiss French : habitational name from Gray in Haute-Saône and Le Gray in Seine-Maritime, both in France, or from Gray-la-ville in Switzerland, or a regional name from the Swiss canton of Graubünden.A leading English family called Grey, holders of the earldom of Stamford, can be traced to Henry de Grey, who was granted lands at Thurrock, Essex, by Richard I (1189–99). They once held great power, and Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk (1517–54), married a granddaughter of Henry VII. Because of this he felt entitled to claim the throne for his daughter, Lady Jane Grey (1537–54), after the death of Henry VIII. For this, and for his part in Wyatt’s rebellion, both he and his daughter were beheaded.
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English
English : probably a variant of Skegg, which Reaney and Wilson describe as a nickname from Old Norse skegg ‘beard’; curiously, though, the modern surname occurs chiefly in Hertfordshire, with very little evidence of it in the north, where it might be expected to be concentrated.
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French American
With whiskers, bearded. In Norman times, when most men were clean-shaven, this nickname was given...
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English, German, Danish, and Swedish
English, German, Danish, and Swedish : nickname for someone of an icy and unbending disposition or who had white hair or a white beard, from Old English, Old High German, Old Norse frost ‘frost’, or in the case of the Swedish name from a byname with the same meaning.
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English
English : origin uncertain; perhaps a variant of Beardall or Bardwell.
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English
English : nickname for a bearded man (Middle English, Old English beard). To be clean-shaven was the norm in non-Jewish communities in northwestern Europe from the 12th to the 16th century, the crucial period for surname formation. There is a place name and other evidence to show that this word was used as a byname in the Old English period, when beards were the norm; in this period the byname would have referred to a large or noticeable beard. As an American surname, this name has absorbed cognates and equivalents in other languages, in particular German Bart.English : habitational name from a place in Derbyshire, which derives its name by dissimilation from Old English brerd ‘rim’, ‘bank’.
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Norse
Son of Ofeig Dangle Beard.
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v. t.
To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
n.
Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain.
a.
Destitute of an awn; as, beardless wheat.
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Without a beard. Hence: Not having arrived at puberty or manhood; youthful.
v. t.
To cut or pare off from the surface of a body with a razor or other edged instrument; to cut off closely, as with a razor; as, to shave the beard.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Beard
n.
The state or quality of being destitute of beard.
n.
A gossat, or rockling; -- called also whistler, three-bearded rockling, sea loach, and sorghe.
n.
That part of the beard which grows upon the sides of the face, or upon the chin, or upon both; as, side whiskers; chin whiskers.
a.
Having a beard.
n.
A hair of the beard.
imp. & p. p.
of Beard
n.
A large monkey (Macacus silenus) native of Malabar. It is black, or nearly so, but has a long white or gray beard encircling the face. Called also maha, silenus, neelbhunder, lion-tailed baboon, and great wanderoo.
v. i.
To use a razor for removing the beard; to cut closely; hence, to be hard and severe in a bargain; to practice extortion; to cheat.
n.
The bearded seal.
n.
The act of one who, or that which, shaves; specifically, the act of cutting off the beard with a razor.
v. t.
A cutting of the beard; the operation of shaving.
n.
A genus of lichens, most of the species of which have long, gray, pendulous, and finely branched fronds. Usnea barbata is the common bearded lichen which grows on branches of trees in northern forests.
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The bearded loach (Nemachilus barbatus) of Europe.
v. t.
To make bare or smooth by cutting off closely the surface, or surface covering, of; especially, to remove the hair from with a razor or other sharp instrument; to take off the beard or hair of; as, to shave the face or the crown of the head; he shaved himself.