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- Bead - n. - A prayer.
- 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.
- Bead - n. - Any small globular body
- Bead - n. - A bubble in spirits.
- Bead - n. - A drop of sweat or other liquid.
- 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).
- 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 - 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.
- Bead - v. t. - To ornament with beads or beading.
- Bead - v. i. - To form beadlike bubbles.
- 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 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.
- Beaded - imp. & p. p. - of Bead
- Beadhouse - n. - Alt. of Bedehouse
- Beading - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Bead
- Beading - n. - Molding in imitation of beads.
- Beading - n. - The beads or bead-forming quality of certain liquors; as, the beading of a brand of whisky.
- 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.
- Beadle - v. - An officer in a university, who precedes public processions of officers and students.
- 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.
- Beadlery - n. - Office or jurisdiction of a beadle.
- Beadleship - n. - The state of being, or the personality of, a beadle.
- 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.
- Beadsman - n. - Alt. of Bedesman
- Beadsnake - n. - A small poisonous snake of North America (Elaps fulvius), banded with yellow, red, and black.
- Arango - n. - A bead of rough carnelian. Arangoes were formerly imported from Bombay for use in the African slave trade.
- Bubble - n. - A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
- 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.
- Azedarach - n. - A handsome Asiatic tree (Melia azedarach), common in the southern United States; -- called also, Pride of India, Pride of China, and Bead tree.
- Duck - v. t. - A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water.
- Enamel - v. t. - A glassy, opaque bead obtained by the blowpipe.
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- H2737 חָרוּז - 2737 חָרוּז - חָרוּז - - chârûwz - khaw-rooz' - from an unused root meaning to perforate; properly, pierced, i.e. a bead of pearl, gems or jewels (as strung); chain. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H3558 כּוּמָז - 3558 כּוּמָז - כּוּמָז - - kûwmâz - koo-mawz' - from an unused root meaning to store away; a jewel (probably gold beads); tablet. - Noun Masculine - heb