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

Beading :: Beading (n.) The beads or bead-forming quality of certain liquors; as, the beading of a brand of whisky..

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..

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

Bedesman :: Bedesman (n.) Same as Beadsman.

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..

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)..

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..

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

Bead :: Bead (v. t.) To ornament with beads or beading.

Bedeswoman :: Bedeswoman (n.) Fem. of Beadsman.

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..

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

Beadlery :: Beadlery (n.) Office or jurisdiction of a beadle.

Beading :: Beading (n.) Molding in imitation of beads.

Unstring :: Unstring (v. t.) To deprive of a string or strings; also, to take from a string; as, to unstring beads..

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..

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

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..

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

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