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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..

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

Rosary :: Rosary (n.) A chapelet; a garland; a series or collection, as of beautiful thoughts or of literary selections..

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

Rosary :: Rosary (n.) A coin bearing the figure of a rose, fraudulently circulated in Ireland in the 13th century for a penny..

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..

Rosary :: Rosary (n.) A bed of roses, or place where roses grow..

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..

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

Rosery :: Rosery (n.) A place where roses are cultivated; a nursery of roses. See Rosary, 1..

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