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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..

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.].

Wire :: Wire (v. t.) To put upon a wire; as, to wire beads..

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..

Gaudy :: Gaudy (n.) One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.

Beading :: Beading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bea.

Beaded :: Beaded (imp. & p. p.) of Bea.

Null :: Null (n.) One of the beads in nulled work.

Beady :: Beady (a.) Characterized by beads; as, beady liquor..

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

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

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..

Baguette :: Baguette (n.) A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead..

Beadswoman :: Beadswoman (n.) Alt. of Bedeswoma.

Rigoll :: Rigoll (n.) A musical instrument formerly in use, consisting of several sticks bound together, but separated by beads, and played with a stick with a ball at its end..

Beadsman :: Beadsman (n.) Alt. of Bedesma.

Bedell :: Bedell (n.) Same as Beadle.

Arango :: Arango (n.) A bead of rough carnelian. Arangoes were formerly imported from Bombay for use in the African slave trade.

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

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