mumblety-peg mumble-the-peg | a game in which players throw or flip a jackknife in various ways so that the knife sticks in the ground |
beard worm pogonophoran | slender animal with tentacles and a tubelike outer covering, lives on the deep ocean bottom |
byssus beard | tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface |
beard | hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals |
bellarmine longbeard long-beard greybeard | a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck, decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (th century) |
beard face fungus whiskers | the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face |
imperial imperial beard | a small tufted beard worn by Emperor Napoleon III |
vandyke beard vandyke | a short pointed beard (named after the artist Anthony Vandyke) |
mumble | a soft indistinct utterance |
grumble grumbling murmur murmuring mutter muttering | a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone |
mutter muttering murmur murmuring murmuration mussitation | a low continuous indistinct sound, often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech |
beard | a person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality) |
virgin's bower old man's beard devil's darning needle Clematis virginiana | common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowers |
traveler's joy traveller's joy old man's beard Clematis vitalba | vigorous deciduous climber of Europe to Afghanistan and Lebanon having panicles of fragrant green-white flowers in summer and autumn |
American pasqueflower Eastern pasque flower wild crocus lion's beard prairie anemone blue tulip American pulsatilla Pulsatilla patens Anemone ludoviciana | short hairy perennial with early spring blue-violet or lilac flowers, North America and Siberia |
hawk's-beard hawk's-beards | any of various plants of the genus Crepis having loose heads of yellow flowers on top of a long branched leafy stem, northern hemisphere |
crownbeard crown-beard crown beard | any plant of the genus Verbesina having clustered white or yellow flower heads |
cowpen daisy golden crownbeard golden crown beard butter daisy Verbesina encelioides Ximenesia encelioides | coarse greyish-green annual yellow-flowered herb, southwestern United States to Mexico |
broom beard grass prairie grass wire grass Andropogon scoparius Schizachyrium scoparium | handsome hardy North American grass with foliage turning pale bronze in autumn |
Jupiter's beard silverbush silver-bush Anthyllis barba-jovis | silvery hairy European shrub with evergreen foliage and pale yellow flowers |
Spanish moss old man's beard black moss long moss Tillandsia usneoides | dense festoons of greenish-grey hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots, southeastern United States and West Indies to South America |
golden-beard penstemon Penstemon barbatus | plant of southwestern United States having long open clusters of scarlet flowers with yellow hairs on lower lip |
beard lichen beard moss Usnea barbata | greenish grey pendulous lichen growing on trees |
beard | a tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses |
f make urinate piddle puddle micturate piss pee pee-pee make water relieve oneself take a leak spend a penny wee wee-wee pass water | eliminate urine, Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug |
find oneself find d | accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation, My son went to Berkeley to find himself |
steel oneself against steel onself for brace oneself for prepare for | prepare mentally or emotionally for something unpleasant |
get cracking bestir oneself get going get moving get weaving get started get rolling | start to be active, Get cracking, please! |
prove oneself | show one's ability or courage |
propose declare oneself offer pop the question | ask (someone) to marry you, he popped the question on Sunday night, she proposed marriage to the man she had known for only two months, The old bachelor finally declared himself to the young woman |
cross oneself | make the sign of the cross, in the Catholic religion |
murmur mutter grumble croak gnarl | make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath, she grumbles when she feels overworked |
mumble mutter maunder mussitate | talk indistinctly, usually in a low voice |
extend oneself | strain to the utmost |
kill oneself overexert oneself | strain oneself more than is healthy |
mumble gum | grind with the gums, chew without teeth and with great difficulty, the old man had no teeth left and mumbled his food |
take pride pride oneself | feel proud of, She took great pride in her sons |
betake oneself | displace oneself, go from one location to another |
keep to oneself | withhold information, I kept your little secret to myself all these years |
keep to oneself | shun the company of others, The new student keeps to herself |
band oneself league together | attach oneself to a group |
bring oneself | cause to undertake a certain action, usually used in the negative, He could not bring himself to call his parents |
trouble oneself trouble bother inconvenience oneself | take the trouble to do something, concern oneself, He did not trouble to call his mother on her birthday, Don't bother, please |
condescend stoop lower oneself c | debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way, I won't stoop to reading other people's mail |
assert oneself | put oneself forward in an assertive and insistent manner |
remember oneself | recover one's good manners after a lapse or stop behaving badly, Please remember yourself, Charles! |
beard | go along the rim, like a beard around the chin, Houses bearded the top of the heights |
lend oneself apply | be applicable to, as to an analysis, This theory lends itself well to our new data |
help oneself help | abstain from doing, always used with a negative, I can't help myself--I have to smoke, She could not help watching the sad spectacle |