Assert and Beard

verb

• State categorically.
  • synonyms: asseverate, maintain
• To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true.
  • usage: "Before God I swear I am innocent"
  • synonyms: affirm, verify, avow, aver, swan, swear
• Insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized.
  • usage: "Women should assert themselves more"
  • synonyms: put forward
• Assert to be true.
  • usage: "The letter asserts a free society"
  • synonyms: insist

• (v.t.) To maintain; to defend.
• (v.t.) To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.
• (v.t.) To affirm; to declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

noun

• The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
  • synonyms: face fungus, whiskers
• A tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses.
• A person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality. )
• Hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals.
• Tuft of strong filaments by which e. G. A mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface.
  • synonyms: byssus

verb

• Go along the rim, like a beard around the chin.
  • usage: "Houses bearded the top of the heights"

• (n.) The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle.
• (n.) The long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat.
• (n.) In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
• (n.) An imposition; a trick.
• (v.t.) To oppose to the gills; to set at defiance.
• (n.) The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.
• (n.) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
• (n.) The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
• (n.) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain.
• (n.) The gills of some bivalves, as the oyster.
• (n.) A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
• (v.t.) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
• (n.) That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
• (v.t.) To deprive of the gills; -- used only of oysters and similar shellfish.
• (n.) The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.