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

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

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..

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

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

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

Psalter :: Psalter (n.) A rosary, consisting of a hundred and fifty beads, corresponding to the number of the psalms..

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

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

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..

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)..

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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