Definition of bead

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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..

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String :: String (v. t.) To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads..
Margosa :: Margosa (n.) A large tree of genus Melia (M. Azadirachta) found in India. Its bark is bitter, and used as a tonic. A valuable oil is expressed from its seeds, and a tenacious gum exudes from its trunk. The M. Azedarach is a much more showy tree, and is cultivated in the Southern United States, where it is known as Pride of India, Pride of China, or bead tree. Various parts of the tree are considered anthelmintic..
Bluegown :: Bluegown (n.) One of a class of paupers or pensioners, or licensed beggars, in Scotland, to whim annually on the king's birthday were distributed certain alms, including a blue gown; a beadsman..
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..
Gaudy :: Gaudy (n.) One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.
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..
Beadsman :: Beadsman (n.) Alt. of Bedesma.
Enamel :: Enamel (v. t.) A glassy, opaque bead obtained by the blowpipe..
Subbrachial :: Subbeadle (n.) An under beadle.
Bead :: Bead (n.) A prayer.
Bugle :: Bugle (n.) An elongated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black..
Bluecoat :: Bluecoat (n.) One dressed in blue, as a soldier, a sailor, a beadle, etc..
Wampum :: Wampum (n.) Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament..
Bead :: Bead (v. t.) To ornament with beads or beading.
Beading :: Beading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bea.
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..
Bedesman :: Bedesman (n.) Same as Beadsman.
Beaded :: Beaded (imp. & p. p.) of Bea.
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..
Bead :: Bead (n.) A bubble in spirits.
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