Chapter Bear to Beasts of B by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

run in one's beard. To offer opposition to a person; to do something obnoxious to a person before his face. The French say, “à la barbe de quelqu'un,” under one's very nose.
   With the beard on the shoulder (Spanish). In the attitude of listening to overhear something; with circumspection, looking in all directions for surprises and ambuscades.

“They rode, as the Spanish proverb expresses it, `with the beard on the shoulder,' looking round from time to time, and using every precaution ... against pursuit.”- Sir W. Scott: Peveril of the Peak, chap. vii.

   Tax upon beards. Peter the Great imposed a tax upon beards. Every one above the lowest class had to pay 100 roubles, and the lowest class had to pay a copec, for enjoying this “luxury.” Clerks were stationed at the gates of every town to collect the beard-tax.

Bearded Bearded Master (Magister barbatus). So Persius styled Socrates, under the notion that the beard is the symbol of wisdom. (B.C.468-399.)
   Pogonatus (Bearded). Constantine IV., Emperor of Rome (648, 668-685).
   The Bearded. Geoffrey the Crusader, and Bouchard of the house of Montmorency.
   Handsome- beard. Baldwin IV., Earl of Flanders. (1160-1186.)
   John the Bearded. Johann Mayo, the German painter, whose beard touched the ground when he stood upright.

Bearded Women:
   Bartel Grætjë, of Stuttgard, born 1562.
   The Duke of Saxony had the portrait taken of a poor Swiss woman, remarkable for her large bushy beard.
   In 1726 a female dancer appeared at Venice, with a large bushy beard.
   Charles XII. had in his army a woman whose beard was a yard and a half long. She was taken prisoner at the battle of Pultowa, and presented to the Czar, 1724.
   Mlle. Bois de Chêne, born at Geneva in 1834, was exhibited in London in 1852-3; she had a profuse head of hair, a strong black beard, large whiskers, and thick hair on her arms and back.
   Julia Pastrana was exhibited in London in 1857; died, 1862, at Moscow; was embalmed by Professor Suckaloff; and the embalmed body was exhibited at 191, Piccadilly. She was found among the Digger Indians of Mexico.
   Margaret of Holland had a long, stiff beard.

Bearings I'll bring him to his bearings. I'll bring him to his senses. A sea term. The bearings of a ship at anchor is that part of her hull which is on the water-line when she is in good trim. To bring a ship to her bearings is to get her into this trim. (Dana: The Seaman's Manual, 84.)
   To lose one's bearings. To become bewildered; to get perplexed as to which is the right road.
   To take the bearings. To ascertain the relative position of some object.

Bearnais (Le). Henri IV. of France; so called from Le Bearn, his native province (1553-1610).

Beasts (Heraldic):
   Couchant, lying down.
   Counter-passant, moving in opposite directions.
   Dormant, sleeping.
   Gardant, full-faced.
   Issuant, rising from the top or bottom of an ordinary.
   Nascent, rising out of the middle of an ordinary.
   Passant, walking.
   Passant gardant, walking, and with full face.
   Passant regardant, walking and looking behind.
   Rampant, rearing.
   Regardant, looking back.
   Sejant, seated.
   Salient, springing.
   Statant, standing still.