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

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)..

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

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

Baguette :: Baguette (n.) A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead..

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..

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..

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

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

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 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..

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

Seawant :: Seawant (n.) The name used by the Algonquin Indians for the shell beads which passed among the Indians as money.

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

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

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

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..

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

Bedelry :: Bedelry (n.) Beadleship.

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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