Santa Claus's facial hair
Publish date: 2024-06-17
| • | The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults. |
| • | The long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat. |
| • | The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds |
| • | The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes. |
| • | The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle. |
| • | The gills of some bivalves, as the oyster. |
| • | In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies. |
| • | Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain. |
| • | A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out. |
| • | That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle. |
| • | That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face. |
| • | An imposition; a trick. |
| • | To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt. |
| • | To oppose to the gills; to set at defiance. |
| • | To deprive of the gills; -- used only of oysters and similar shellfish. |
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