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

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

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

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..

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

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

Beadle :: Beadle (v.) An inferior parish officer in England having a variety of duties, as the preservation of order in church service, the chastisement of petty offenders, etc..

Bead :: Bead (n.) A prayer.

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

Unstring :: Unstring (v. t.) To deprive of a string or strings; also, to take from a string; as, to unstring beads..

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

Arango :: Arango (n.) A bead of rough carnelian. Arangoes were formerly imported from Bombay for use in the African slave trade.

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..

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

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..

Enamel :: Enamel (v. t.) A glassy, opaque bead obtained by the blowpipe..

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..

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

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)..

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..

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