Bead :: Bead (n.) A prayer.

Bead :: Bead (n.) A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer..

Bead :: Bead (n.) Any small globular bod.

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

Bead :: Bead (n.) A drop of sweat or other liquid.

Bead :: Bead (n.) A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim)..

Bead :: Bead (n.) A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments..

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..

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

Bead :: Bead (v. i.) To form beadlike bubbles.

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..

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..

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

Beadhouse :: Beadhouse (n.) Alt. of Bedehous.

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

Beading :: Beading (n.) Molding in imitation of beads.

Beading :: Beading (n.) The beads or bead-forming quality of certain liquors; as, the beading of a brand of whisky..

Beadle :: Beadle (v.) A messenger or crier of a court; a servitor; one who cites or bids persons to appear and answer; -- called also an apparitor or summoner.

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

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..

Beadlery :: Beadlery (n.) Office or jurisdiction of a beadle.

Beadleship :: Beadleship (n.) The state of being, or the personality 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..

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

Beadsnake :: Beadsnake (n.) A small poisonous snake of North America (Elaps fulvius), banded with yellow, red, and black..

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

Beadwork :: Beadwork (n.) Ornamental work in beads.

Beady :: Beady (a.) Resembling beads; small, round, and glistening..

Beady :: Beady (a.) Covered or ornamented with, or as with, beads..

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

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