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Bead   /bid/   Listen
noun
Bead  n.  
1.
A prayer. (Obs.)
2.
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 Muslims, whence the phrases to tell beads, to be at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer.
3.
Any small globular body; as,
(a)
A bubble in spirits.
(b)
A drop of sweat or other liquid. "Cold beads of midnight dew."
(c)
A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim).
(d)
(Arch.) A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments.
(e)
(Chem.) 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 and butt (Carp.), framing in which the panels are flush, having beads stuck or run upon the two edges.
Bead mold, a species of fungus or mold, the stems of which consist of single cells loosely jointed together so as to resemble a string of beads. (Written also bead mould)
Bead tool, a cutting tool, having an edge curved so as to make beads or beading.
Bead tree (Bot.), a tree of the genus Melia, the best known species of which (Melia azedarach), has blue flowers which are very fragrant, and berries which are poisonous.


verb
Bead  v. t.  (past & past part. beaded; pres. part. beading)  To ornament with beads or beading.


Bead  v. i.  To form beadlike bubbles.





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"Bead" Quotes from Famous Books



... quell whose least me quickenings lift. In scarlet or somewhere of some day seeing That brow and bead of being, An our day's God's own Galahad. ...
— Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins - Now First Published • Gerard Manley Hopkins
... when Miss Bartlett brought his dinner from town, and insisted upon cutting his chicken for him and feeding him custard with a spoon. The rest of the days were lost in abstract time, during which Quin had his hair cut and his face shaved, and did bead-work. ...
— Quin • Alice Hegan Rice
... that an officer returning from the war was there, and since we old soldiers like to foregather, we decided to have him come and join our party. They are due here, and unless my eyes deceive me— and I know they don't—they're at the bead of the valley ...
— The Tree of Appomattox • Joseph A. Altsheler
... mounted a dummy figure of a man on their parapet. Tommy had great sport shooting at it, the Germans jiggling its arms and legs in a most laughable manner whenever a hit was registered. In their eagerness to "get a good bead" on the figure, the men threw caution to the winds, and stood on the firing-benches, shooting over the top of the parapet. Fritz and Hans were true sportsmen while the fun was on, and did not once fire at us. Then the dummy was taken down, and we returned ...
— Kitchener's Mob - Adventures of an American in the British Army • James Norman Hall
... called "took in pupils." They were very thin, they had very long thin noses, they were always very cold, and from the sharp end of the long thin nose of the elder Miss Pocket there always depended, much fascinating Rosalie, a shining bead of moisture. ...
— This Freedom • A. S. M. Hutchinson


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