WHISKER

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WHISKER , a word chiefly used in the plural in the sense of the

hair

HAIR (a word common to Teutonic
languages
- LANGUAGES
)

worn by a man on the cheeks as opposed to the

beard

BEARD (A.S. beard, O. H. and Mod. Ger.
Bart
- BART, JEAN (1651-1702)
, Dan. beard, Icel. bar, rim, edge,
beak
- BEAK (early forms
  beke
  - BEKE,
    CHARLES
    TILSTONE (1800-1874)
  and becke, from Fr. bec, late Lat. beccus, supposed to be a Gaulish word; the Celtic bec and beq, however, are taken from the
  English
  - ENGLISH
  )
of a ship, &c., O. Slay. barda, Russ. barodd. Cf. Welsh barf, Lat.. barba, though, according to the New
English
- ENGLISH
Dictionary, the connexion is for phonetic reasons doubtful)
BEARD,
WILLIAM
HOLBROOK (1825-1900)

on the

chin

CHIN

and the moustache on the upper lip (see

BEARD

BEARD (A.S. beard, O. H. and Mod. Ger.
Bart
- BART, JEAN (1651-1702)
, Dan. beard, Icel. bar, rim, edge,
beak
- BEAK (early forms
  beke
  - BEKE,
    CHARLES
    TILSTONE (1800-1874)
  and becke, from Fr. bec, late Lat. beccus, supposed to be a Gaulish word; the Celtic bec and beq, however, are taken from the English)
of a ship, &c., O. Slay. barda, Russ. barodd. Cf. Welsh barf, Lat.. barba, though, according to the New English Dictionary, the connexion is for phonetic reasons doubtful)
BEARD,
WILLIAM
HOLBROOK (1825-1900)

). It is also applied to the bristly feelers growing round the mouth of a cat or other animal. The word by derivation means that which " whisks " or " brushes."

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