Obs. App. a name for a beard of some particular cut, or for some parts of it: see Fairholt’s Costume in England Gloss. s.v. Beard.
1592. Greene, Upst. Courtier, in Harl. Misc., V. 406. He [the barber] descends as low as his beard and asketh … whether he will have his peak cut short and sharp … whether he will have his crates cut lowe like a juniper bush, or his suberches taken away with a rasor?
