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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..

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)..

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..

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

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

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

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..

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.

Bead :: Bead (v. i.) To form beadlike bubbles.

Bead :: 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..

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

Necklace :: Necklace (n.) A string of beads, etc., or any continuous band or chain, worn around the neck as an ornament..

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

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

Bedesman :: Bedesman (n.) A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman..

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

String :: String (v. t.) To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads..

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..

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

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

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