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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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..

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

Paternoster :: Paternoster (n.) A beadlike ornament in moldings.

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..

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

Beading :: Beading (n.) Molding in imitation of beads.

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

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

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)..

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

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..

Chaplet :: Chaplet (n.) A string of beads, or part of a string, used by Roman Catholic in praying; a third of a rosary, or fifty beads..

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