Possible Clues:

• Like some grasses
• Having a beard, popped head off
• Sheltered in base with dawn breaking outside
• Doesn't wrap up, regularly going out with ears covered?
• Having a bristle like barley
• Bearded, as grass
• Bristled, as grain
• Wife grabbed by drunken Dane with beard
• Bristled like barley
• Like wheat and barley