bearded

Etymology 1

From beard + -ed.

verb

1. simple past and past participle of beard

Etymology 2

From Middle English berded, from Old English ġebearded, ġebeardede, ġebierd, ġebierde (“bearded”), from Proto-Germanic *bardōdaz (“bearded”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰéh₂tos (“bearded”), equivalent to beard + -ed. Cognate with Dutch bebaarde (“bearded”), Middle Low German bārt (“bearded”), archaic German gebartet (“bearded”).

adj

1. Having a beard; involving a beard.
   1693, Juvenal, The Satyrs, translated by John Dryden and others, London: J. Tonson, 1735, 6th edition, Satyr VI, p. 80, https://archive.org/details/satyrsdecimusju00creegoog There are who in soft Eunuchs place their Bliss; / To shun the Scrubbing of a bearded Kiss, / And 'scape Abortion; but their solid Joy / Is when the Page, already past a Boy, / Is Capon'd late; and to the Gelder shown, / With his two Pounders to Perfection grown. / When all the Navel string cou'd give, appears; / All but the Beard, and that's the Barber's loss, not theirs.
2. Having a fringe or appendage resembling a beard in some way (often followed by with).
   … but the joyous sea / Shall be our raiment, and the bearded star / Shoot arrows at our pleasure! 1881, Oscar Wilde, “Panthea”, in Poems, Boston: Roberts Brothers, page 182
   Bearded with dewy grass the mountains thrust / Their blackness high into the still grey light, 1894, A. E., “On a Hill-Top”, in Homeward: Songs by the Way, London: John Lane, published 1901, page 42
3. (Of an axe) having the lower portion of the axehead extending the cutting edge significantly below the width of the butt, thus providing a wide cutting surface while keeping overall weight low.
4. (in combination) Having a beard (or similar appendage) of a specified type.
   … for with his hammer Thor / Smote 'mid the rocks the lichen-bearded pines / And burst their roots … 1855, Matthew Arnold, Balder Dead, Part II, lines 55-7, in The Poems of Matthew Arnold, 1840-1867, Oxford University Press, 1909, p. 248, https://archive.org/details/cu31924013206499
   Down below that in the Great River, now at its coldest hour, the heads and shoulders of the nymphs, and the great weedy-bearded head of the river-god, rose from the water. 1951, C. S. Lewis, chapter 11, in Prince Caspian, Collins, published 1998

noun

1. (informal, botany, horticulture) A bearded iris.
   The herbaceous perennial irises benefit from at least one feeding a year in early spring as growth begins. Siberian and Japanese irises appreciate a second feeding just as the flowers fade. Beardeds do best with a second feeding in late summer. 2017, Barbara W. Ellis, “Iris: Irises”, in Taylor's Guide to Growing North America's Favorite Plants: Proven Perennials, Annuals, Flowering Trees, Shrubs, & Vines for Every Garden, New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, page 181