beard1 /biad; bird/ n 1 hair of the lower part of the face (excluding the moustache): 胡窟; 髯(不包括髭)： a man with a ~; 留胡子的人; a week's (growth of) ~; 一星期未剃的醬子; similar growth of hair on an animal: (動物的)胡子： a billygoafs ~. 雄山羊的醬子。 2 ~-like sheath on the grain of barley, oats, etc. (大麥、燕麥等的)芒。 ~ed adj having a ~. 有翳子的。 ~less adj having no ~: 無胡堀的： a ~less youth. 無胡須的靑年。