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Definition of bead

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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..

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Bead :: Bead (v. i.) To form beadlike bubbles.

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

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

Beadroll :: Beadroll (n.) A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general..

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

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

Beadlery :: Beadlery (n.) Office or jurisdiction of a beadle.

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

Hermit :: Hermit (n.) A beadsman; one bound to pray for another.

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

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..

Moniliform :: Moniliform (a.) Joined or constricted, at regular intervals, so as to resemble a string of beads; as, a moniliform root; a moniliform antenna. See Illust. of Antenna..

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

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..

Gaudy :: Gaudy (n.) One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.

Subbrachial :: Subbeadle (n.) An under beadle.

Bedehouse :: Bedehouse (n.) Same as Beadhouse.

Amber :: Amber (n.) A yellowish translucent resin resembling copal, found as a fossil in alluvial soils, with beds of lignite, or on the seashore in many places. It takes a fine polish, and is used for pipe mouthpieces, beads, etc., and as a basis for a fine varnish. By friction, it becomes strongly electric..

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

Beadle :: Beadle (v.) A messenger or crier of a court; a servitor; one who cites or bids persons to appear and answer; -- called also an apparitor or summoner.