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

Bubble :: Bubble (n.) A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits..

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

Enamel :: Enamel (v. t.) A glassy, opaque bead obtained by the blowpipe..

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

Chaplet :: Chaplet (n.) A small molding, carved into beads, pearls, olives, etc..

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

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

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.].

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..

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..

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..

Duck :: Duck (v. t.) A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water..

Passementerie :: Passementerie (n.) Beaded embroidery for women's dresses.

Seawant :: Seawant (n.) The name used by the Algonquin Indians for the shell beads which passed among the Indians as money.

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

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..

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)..

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

Creaser :: Creaser (n.) A tool for making creases or beads, as in sheet iron, or for rounding small tubes..

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