white-ˈbearded, a.
[white a. 12 c.]
Having a white beard. a. Of a man.
| 1596 Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 509 Falstaffe, that old white-bearded Sathan. 1914 D. H. Lawrence Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd iii. 81 A little stout, white-bearded man. |
b. Of wheat.
| 1788 G. Washington Diary 8 Sept. (1925) III. 417 Also sowing..one bushel of the White bearded Wheat sent me by Beale Boardly. 1850 Rep. U.S. Comm. Patents 1849: Agric. 132 The white-bearded wheat, a valuable kind less liable to total failure than any other; not very popular with millers. |
c. fig.
| 1920 E. Sitwell Wooden Pegasus 100 And, mourners too, white-bearded seas Walk slowly by them as they come. 1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 19 Jan. (Suppl.) 1/1 Waves came solid green and white-bearded, like frost giants racing. |