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

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

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

Bead :: Bead (n.) A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe; as, the borax bead; the iron bead, etc..

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

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

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

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

Beady :: Beady (a.) Covered or ornamented with, or as with, beads..

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..

Beadle :: Beadle (v.) A messenger or crier of a court; a servitor; one who cites or bids persons to appear and answer; -- called also an apparitor or summoner.

Bubble :: Bubble (n.) A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits..

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..

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

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

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.].

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

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..

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

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