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String :: String (v. t.) To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads..

Baguette :: Baguette (n.) A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead..

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

Beading :: Beading (n.) The beads or bead-forming quality of certain liquors; as, the beading of a brand of whisky..

Paternoster :: Paternoster (n.) A beadlike ornament in moldings.

Chaplet :: Chaplet (n.) A string of beads, or part of a string, used by Roman Catholic in praying; a third of a rosary, or fifty beads..

Bead Proof :: Bead proof () A degree of strength in alcoholic liquor as shown by beads or small bubbles remaining on its surface, or at the side of the glass, when shaken..

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..

Rosary :: Rosary (n.) A series of prayers (see Note below) arranged to be recited in order, on beads; also, a string of beads by which the prayers are counted..

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

Pair :: Pair (n.) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. A pair of beads. Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. Four pair of stairs. Macaulay. [Now mostly or quite disused, except as to stairs.].

Wampum :: Wampum (n.) Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament..

Bluecoat :: Bluecoat (n.) One dressed in blue, as a soldier, a sailor, a beadle, etc..

Bedesman :: Bedesman (n.) Same as Beadsman.

Chaplet :: Chaplet (n.) A small molding, carved into beads, pearls, olives, etc..

Null :: Null (n.) One of the beads in nulled work.

Bead :: Bead (n.) A prayer.

Wire :: Wire (v. t.) To put upon a wire; as, to wire beads..

Bead :: Bead (n.) A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments..

Bubble :: Bubble (n.) A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits..

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