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Bugle :: Bugle (n.) An elongated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black..

Seawant :: Seawant (n.) The name used by the Algonquin Indians for the shell beads which passed among the Indians as money.

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

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

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

Beady :: Beady (a.) Resembling beads; small, round, and glistening..

String :: String (n.) A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged; a succession; a concatenation; a chain; as, a string of shells or beads; a string of dried apples; a string of houses; a string of arguments..

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

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

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

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

Bead Proof :: Bead proof () Among distillers, a certain degree of strength in alcoholic liquor, as formerly ascertained by the floating or sinking of glass globules of different specific gravities thrown into it; now ascertained by more accurate meters..

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

Beady :: Beady (a.) Characterized by beads; as, beady liquor..

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

Rigoll :: Rigoll (n.) A musical instrument formerly in use, consisting of several sticks bound together, but separated by beads, and played with a stick with a ball at its end..

Bluegown :: Bluegown (n.) One of a class of paupers or pensioners, or licensed beggars, in Scotland, to whim annually on the king's birthday were distributed certain alms, including a blue gown; a beadsman..

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.].

Bead :: Bead (n.) A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim)..

Beadsman :: Beadsman (n.) Alt. of Bedesma.

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