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

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

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

Beading :: Beading (n.) The beads or bead-forming quality of certain liquors; as, the beading of a brand of whisky..

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

Comboloio :: Comboloio (n.) A Mohammedan rosary, consisting of ninety-nine beads..

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

Amber :: Amber (n.) A yellowish translucent resin resembling copal, found as a fossil in alluvial soils, with beds of lignite, or on the seashore in many places. It takes a fine polish, and is used for pipe mouthpieces, beads, etc., and as a basis for a fine varnish. By friction, it becomes strongly electric..

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

Bedell :: Bedell (n.) Same as Beadle.

Bead :: Bead (v. t.) To ornament with beads or beading.

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

Bead :: Bead (n.) A prayer.

Beadswoman :: Beadswoman (n.) Alt. of Bedeswoma.

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

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..

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

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.].

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

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

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