Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's EASY!
Home - Quote Topics - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Author Nationalities

Authors:    A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z 

Google Web brainyquote.com   
Definition of Beaver
Beaver

An amphibious rodent, of the genus Castor.

The fur of the beaver.

A hat, formerly made of the fur of the beaver, but now usually of silk.

Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woolen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.

That piece of armor which protected the lower part of the face, whether forming a part of the helmet or fixed to the breastplate. It was so constructed (with joints or otherwise) that the wearer could raise or lower it to eat and drink.

Related Definitions:
Amphibious, An, And, Armor, Beaver, Breastplate, But, Castor, Chiefly, Cloth, Constructed, Could, Drink, Eat, Face, Felted, Fixed, For, Formerly, Forming, Fur, Genus, Heavy, Helmet, Hat, It, Lower, Made, Making, Now, Of, Or, Otherwise, Part, Piece, Protected, Raise, Rodent, Silk, So, That, The, To, Used, Was, Wearer, Whether, Which, With, Woolen


Beaver Quotations

A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You can't make somebody love you the way you want them to love you, it's not a Leave it to Beaver type world. This isn't television. Life's a lot more cruel than that.
Jake Roberts

I'm at a little loss in terms of my Leave It To Beaver expertise, since I never watched an episode of the show - so the cast in the pilot could have been Martians or they could have been the regular cast for all I know.
Harry Shearer

I was very excited about the idea that I could be an idealist, that I could be my age, the eager beaver who had hope in the justice system and the one who gets disappointed just like the audience.
Elisabeth Rohm

To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.
Dennis Banks

Beaver do better work than the Corps of Engineers.
Mike Todd

Beaver Translations

beaver in Dutch is bever
beaver in French is castor
beaver in German is Biber
beaver in Portuguese is castor
beaver in Spanish is castor

Your Favorite Authors
Abraham Lincoln
Albert Einstein
Alexander Hamilton
Andy Warhol
Aristotle
Barack Obama
Benjamin Franklin
Bob Dylan
Bob Hope
Buddha
C. S. Lewis
Dalai Lama
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Friedrich Nietzsche
George Bernard Shaw
George Washington
Harold S. Geneen
Henry David Thoreau
John F. Kennedy
Leo Tolstoy
Leonardo da Vinci
Lord Byron
Lou Holtz
Malcolm Forbes
Mark Twain
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Maya Angelou
Mike Myers
Mohandas Gandhi
Mother Teresa
Muhammad Ali
Nelson Mandela
Noel Redding
Oscar Wilde
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Richard Bach
Rita Rudner
Robert Orben
Ronald Reagan
Samuel Adams
Scott Adams
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
Tom Stoppard
Vince Lombardi
Warren Buffett
William Shakespeare
Winston Churchill

Quotes    RSS Feeds        Copyright 2008 BrainyMedia.com