Definition of bead

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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..

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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..
Bubble :: Bubble (n.) A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits..
Beadsnake :: Beadsnake (n.) A small poisonous snake of North America (Elaps fulvius), banded with yellow, red, and black..
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..
Duck :: Duck (v. t.) A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water..
Bedesman :: Bedesman (n.) Same as Beadsman.
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..
Beadhouse :: Beadhouse (n.) Alt. of Bedehous.
Baguette :: Baguette (n.) A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead..
Bedehouse :: Bedehouse (n.) Same as Beadhouse.
Wampum :: Wampum (n.) Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament..
Bedell :: Bedell (n.) Same as Beadle.
Comboloio :: Comboloio (n.) A Mohammedan rosary, consisting of ninety-nine beads..
Paternoster :: Paternoster (n.) A beadlike ornament in moldings.
Bead :: Bead (v. t.) To ornament with beads or beading.
Beading :: Beading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bea.
Beadlery :: Beadlery (n.) Office or jurisdiction of a beadle.
Bead :: Bead (n.) Any small globular bod.
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.].
Null :: Null (n.) One of the beads in nulled work.
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