* This one time, at band camp, Andrew Bennetts said:
> Strange headers you've got there.
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> "To: Crazy Beared Old Linux Geeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
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> What does the adjective "Beared" mean?
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> -Andrew.
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>
Its 'Bearded' and it means.....
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Beard \Beard\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bearded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Bearding}.]
1. To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard
of (a man), in anger or contempt.
2. To oppose to the gills; to set at defiance.
No admiral, bearded by three corrupt and dissolute
minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter
something about a court martial. --Macaulay.
3. To deprive of the gills; -- used only of oysters and
similar shellfish.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bearded \Beard"ed\, a.
Having a beard. ``Bearded fellow.'' --Shak. ``Bearded
grain.'' --Dryden.
{Bearded vulture}, {Bearded eagle}. (Zo["o]l.) See
{Lammergeir}.
{Bearded tortoise}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Matamata}.
From WordNet (r) 1.6 [wn]:
bearded
adj 1: having hair on the cheeks and chin [syn: {barbate}, {bewhiskered},
{whiskered}, {whiskery}]
2: having a growth of hair-like awns; "bearded wheatgrass"
HTH
Greeno
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