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Bedeswoman :: Bedeswoman (n.) Fem. of Beadsman.

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..

Beadle :: Beadle (v.) An inferior parish officer in England having a variety of duties, as the preservation of order in church service, the chastisement of petty offenders, etc..

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

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

Chaplet :: Chaplet (n.) A string of beads, or part of a string, used by Roman Catholic in praying; a third of a rosary, or fifty beads..

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

Bead :: Bead (n.) A prayer.

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.

Bead :: 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..

Bluecoat :: Bluecoat (n.) One dressed in blue, as a soldier, a sailor, a beadle, etc..

Wampum :: Wampum (n.) Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament..

Beadle :: Beadle (v.) An officer in a university, who precedes public processions of officers and students..

Bugle :: Bugle (n.) An elongated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black..

Paternoster :: Paternoster (n.) A line with a row of hooks and bead/shaped sinkers.

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

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

Comboloio :: Comboloio (n.) A Mohammedan rosary, consisting of ninety-nine beads..

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