Beard

thumb|Hindu Sadhu with a goatee and moustache A beard is the hair that grows on a human chin, cheeks, neck and the area above the upper lip. Sourced BEARD, n. The hair that is commonly cut off by those who justly execrate the absurd Chinese custom of shaving the head. Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911). Many were the disguises he assumed. At one time he even meditated cutting off his mustaches ; — that would have been "the unkindest cut of all.” Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality (1831), Vol.III Chapter 14 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. Leviticus, 19:27 It’s always the same: if someone is against convention his only way of attacking it is by creating another convention, so that when most people are clean-shaven he grows a beard, and when beards are worn he shaves his off. He’s merely changing from one convention to another. Jorge Luis Borges in conversation with Rita Guibert, 1968 (Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations, pps. 51-52.) He that hath a beard is more than a youth; and he that hath no beard is less than a man. Beatrice, from William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, act ii, scene i Blackadder Edmund: [Referring to The Bearded Lady] Great. We've only got one act, and she shaved her beard off! Blackadder [Lord Flasheart nods to Baldrick, who's dressed as a bridesmaid.]Flasheart: Thanks, Bridesmaid! Like the beard! Gives me something to hang on to! Blackadder II Baldrick: Yeah, and I could be played by some tiny tit in a beard. Blackadder III Narrator: [introducing Baldrick] The other was the sole descendant of an unfortunate meeting between a pig-farmer and a bearded lady. History has, quite rightly, forgotten his name. Blackadder External links beard Category:Anatomy