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..
Bead :: Bead (n.) A bubble in spirits.
Beadwork :: Beadwork (n.) Ornamental work in beads.
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..
Beading :: Beading (n.) Molding in imitation of beads.
Bluegown :: Bluegown (n.) One of a class of paupers or pensioners, or licensed beggars, in Scotland, to whim annually on the king's birthday were distributed certain alms, including a blue gown; a beadsman..
Null :: Null (n.) One of the beads in nulled work.
Beaded :: Beaded (imp. & p. p.) of Bea.
Bead :: Bead (n.) Any small globular bod.
Bead Proof :: Bead proof () A degree of strength in alcoholic liquor as shown by beads or small bubbles remaining on its surface, or at the side of the glass, when shaken..
Beadlery :: Beadlery (n.) Office or jurisdiction of a beadle.
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 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..
Full-winged :: Full-winged (a.) Beady for flight; eager.
Psalter :: Psalter (n.) A rosary, consisting of a hundred and fifty beads, corresponding to the number of the psalms..
Bedell :: Bedell (n.) Same as Beadle.
Subbrachial :: Subbeadle (n.) An under beadle.
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..
Beadswoman :: Beadswoman (n.) Alt. of Bedeswoma.
Creaser :: Creaser (n.) A tool for making creases or beads, as in sheet iron, or for rounding small tubes..
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