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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Wampum :: Wampum (n.) Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament..
Beading :: Beading (n.) The beads or bead-forming quality of certain liquors; as, the beading of a brand of whisky..
Amber :: Amber (n.) A yellowish translucent resin resembling copal, found as a fossil in alluvial soils, with beds of lignite, or on the seashore in many places. It takes a fine polish, and is used for pipe mouthpieces, beads, etc., and as a basis for a fine varnish. By friction, it becomes strongly electric..
Creaser :: Creaser (n.) A tool for making creases or beads, as in sheet iron, or for rounding small tubes..
Paternoster :: Paternoster (n.) A beadlike ornament in moldings.
Beadsnake :: Beadsnake (n.) A small poisonous snake of North America (Elaps fulvius), banded with yellow, red, and black..
Chaplet :: Chaplet (n.) A small molding, carved into beads, pearls, olives, etc..
String :: String (n.) A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged; a succession; a concatenation; a chain; as, a string of shells or beads; a string of dried apples; a string of houses; a string of arguments..
Baguette :: Baguette (n.) A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead..
Beadlery :: Beadlery (n.) Office or jurisdiction of a beadle.
Subbrachial :: Subbeadle (n.) An under beadle.
Beadle :: Beadle (v.) An officer in a university, who precedes public processions of officers and students..
Hermit :: Hermit (n.) A beadsman; one bound to pray for another.
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.
Bedehouse :: Bedehouse (n.) Same as Beadhouse.
Bead :: Bead (v. i.) To form beadlike bubbles.
Beady :: Beady (a.) Characterized by beads; as, beady liquor..
Beady :: Beady (a.) Resembling beads; small, round, and glistening..
Beadsman :: Beadsman (n.) Alt. of Bedesma.
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