[
  {
    "word": "beard",
    "phonetic": "/b\u026a\u0259d/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/b\u026a\u0259d/",
        "audio": ""
      },
      {
        "text": "/bi\u025ad/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/beard-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1318177",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The byssus of certain shellfish.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "the beard of grain"
          },
          {
            "definition": "A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to the axehandle.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A fake customer or companion, especially a woman who accompanies a gay man in order to give the impression that he is heterosexual.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "To grow hair on the chin and jaw.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Of a gay man or woman: to accompany a gay person of the opposite sex in order to give the impression that they are heterosexual.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/beard"
    ]
  }
]