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Bead :: Bead (n.) A prayer.

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..

Baguette :: Baguette (n.) A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead..

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

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

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

Subbrachial :: Subbeadle (n.) An under beadle.

Gaudy :: Gaudy (n.) One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.

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

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.

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..

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

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

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

Bedehouse :: Bedehouse (n.) Same as Beadhouse.

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..

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..

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

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

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

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