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

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

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..

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

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 prayer.

Baguette :: Baguette (n.) A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead..

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..

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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..

Full-winged :: Full-winged (a.) Beady for flight; eager.

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..

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

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