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Bedelry :: Bedelry (n.) Beadleship.

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

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..

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.

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

Hermit :: Hermit (n.) A beadsman; one bound to pray for another.

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..

Beady :: Beady (a.) Resembling beads; small, round, and glistening..

Bead :: Bead (n.) A prayer.

Beadleship :: Beadleship (n.) The state of being, or the personality 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..

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..

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

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

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

Bedesman :: Bedesman (n.) A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman..

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

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

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

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

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