bearding

Nevertheless, the name "bee bearding" is still used.

I bathed there, trimming my new bearding and cleaning the dust of travel from my garments as well.

Bee bearding is the practice of wearing several hundred thousand honey bees on the face, usually as a sideshow-type demonstration at agricultural shows.

Conor shook his head slowly back and forth, and a sly smile parted his lips within their dark bearding.

This bearding of the lionwas an English speciality, an innovation of men like Drake, Frobisherand Hawkins.

"oh, how deeply I rejoice that I put off and put off the bearding of him, and the slaying of him for the queen!"

On her devolved the greasing of the official wheels, the snipping off of red tape in numberless telephonic duels, and the bearding of the managerial face.

But the most visible manifestation of the Taliban's control over people has been the forced bearding of men and the forced veiling of the bodies and faces of women.

The sense of weariness and doubt marking this Congress is in contrast with the first session last spring, the forum for so many sensational "firsts," from the first denunciation of the K.G.B., to the first public bearding of a Soviet leader over his grand dacha and limousine perks.