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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..

Beaded :: Beaded (imp. & p. p.) of Bea.

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..

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

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

Beading :: Beading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bea.

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..

Bead :: Bead (n.) A prayer.

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

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

Creaser :: Creaser (n.) A tool for making creases or beads, as in sheet iron, or for rounding small tubes..

Azedarach :: Azedarach (n.) A handsome Asiatic tree (Melia azedarach), common in the southern United States; -- called also, Pride of India, Pride of China, and Bead tree..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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.].

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

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