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

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

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..

Bedelry :: Bedelry (n.) Beadleship.

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..

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..

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

Beading :: Beading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bea.

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

Wire :: Wire (v. t.) To put upon a wire; as, to wire beads..

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

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..

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

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..

Beadle :: Beadle (v.) An officer in a university, who precedes public processions of officers and students..

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

Bead :: Bead (n.) A drop of sweat or other liquid.

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

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..

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

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