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Hermit :: Hermit (n.) A beadsman; one bound to pray for another.

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

Aggri :: Aggri (a.) Applied to a kind of variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture; as, aggry beads are found in Ashantee and Fantee in Africa..

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..

Amber :: Amber (n.) A yellowish translucent resin resembling copal, found as a fossil in alluvial soils, with beds of lignite, or on the seashore in many places. It takes a fine polish, and is used for pipe mouthpieces, beads, etc., and as a basis for a fine varnish. By friction, it becomes strongly electric..

String :: String (n.) A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged; a succession; a concatenation; a chain; as, a string of shells or beads; a string of dried apples; a string of houses; a string of arguments..

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

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

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

Paternoster :: Paternoster (n.) A beadlike ornament in moldings.

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.

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

Bedelry :: Bedelry (n.) Beadleship.

Subbrachial :: Subbeadle (n.) An under beadle.

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

Moniliform :: Moniliform (a.) Joined or constricted, at regular intervals, so as to resemble a string of beads; as, a moniliform root; a moniliform antenna. See Illust. of Antenna..

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 (n.) Any small globular bod.

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

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