To go along the rim, like a beard around the chin.

ETYM Old Eng. berd, AS. beard; akin to Fries. berd, Dutch baard, German bart, Lith. barzda, Old Slav. brada, Pol. broda, Russ. boroda, Latin barba, W. barf. Related to Barb.
1. Hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals.
2. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face; SYN. face fungus, whiskers.

A tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses.

Daniel Carter 1850-1941 American painter, illustrator, and organizer of Boy Scouts in U.S.

(1874-1948) US historian and a leader of the Progressive movement, active in promoting political and social reform. As a chief exponent of critical economic history, he published An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States 1913 and The Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy 1915. With his wife, Mary, he wrote A Basic History of the United States 1944, long a standard textbook in the US.
Born near Knightstown, Indiana, Beard earned a PhD from Columbia University 1904. He resigned from the Columbia faculty 1917 over issues of academic freedom. He helped found the New School for Social Research 1918.