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

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..

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

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

Margosa :: Margosa (n.) A large tree of genus Melia (M. Azadirachta) found in India. Its bark is bitter, and used as a tonic. A valuable oil is expressed from its seeds, and a tenacious gum exudes from its trunk. The M. Azedarach is a much more showy tree, and is cultivated in the Southern United States, where it is known as Pride of India, Pride of China, or bead tree. Various parts of the tree are considered anthelmintic..

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..

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

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..

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

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..

Beadsnake :: Beadsnake (n.) A small poisonous snake of North America (Elaps fulvius), banded with yellow, red, and black..

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

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.

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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