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

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

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..

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..

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

Beadwork :: Beadwork (n.) Ornamental work in beads.

Rosary :: Rosary (n.) A series of prayers (see Note below) arranged to be recited in order, on beads; also, a string of beads by which the prayers are counted..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

Moniliform :: Moniliform (a.) Joined or constricted, at regular intervals, so as to resemble a string of beads; as, a moniliform root; a moniliform antenna. See Illust. of Antenna..

Beadroll :: Beadroll (n.) A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general..

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

Passementerie :: Passementerie (n.) Beaded embroidery for women's dresses.

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..

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