mustache

The hair growing on the human upper lip, especially when cultivated and groomed.

Something similar to the cultivated, groomed hair on the human upper lip, as.

A group of bristles or hairs about the mouth of an animal.

Distinctive coloring or feathers near the beak of a bird.

Food or drink sticking conspicuously to the upper lip.

The beard worn on the upper lip of men; the unshaven hair of the upper lip: frequently used in the plural, as if the hair on each side of the lip were to be regarded as a mustache.

. A long ringlet hanging beside the face, a part of a woman’s head-dress in the seventeenth century.

In zoology:

Hairs or bristles like a mustache; whiskers; rictal vibrissæ mystaces.

A mystacine, malar, or maxillary stripe of color in a bird’s plumage.