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Paternoster :: Paternoster (n.) A line with a row of hooks and bead/shaped sinkers.

Full-winged :: Full-winged (a.) Beady for flight; eager.

Bead :: Bead (n.) A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer..

Comboloio :: Comboloio (n.) A Mohammedan rosary, consisting of ninety-nine beads..

Bedeswoman :: Bedeswoman (n.) Fem. of Beadsman.

Beadhouse :: Beadhouse (n.) Alt. of Bedehous.

Bead :: Bead (n.) Any small globular bod.

Unstring :: Unstring (v. t.) To deprive of a string or strings; also, to take from a string; as, to unstring beads..

Necklace :: Necklace (n.) A string of beads, etc., or any continuous band or chain, worn around the neck as an ornament..

Bedesman :: Bedesman (n.) A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman..

Bedelry :: Bedelry (n.) Beadleship.

Enamel :: Enamel (v. t.) A glassy, opaque bead obtained by the blowpipe..

Psalter :: Psalter (n.) A rosary, consisting of a hundred and fifty beads, corresponding to the number of the psalms..

Aggri :: Aggri (a.) Applied to a kind of variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture; as, aggry beads are found in Ashantee and Fantee in Africa..

Bead :: Bead (v. t.) To ornament with beads or beading.

Duck :: Duck (v. t.) A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water..

Passementerie :: Passementerie (n.) Beaded embroidery for women's dresses.

Beadleship :: Beadleship (n.) The state of being, or the personality of, a beadle..

Bead :: Bead (n.) A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe; as, the borax bead; the iron bead, etc..

Bead :: Bead (n.) A bubble in spirits.

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