English English Dictionary

Any small globular body

To ornament with beads or beading.

To form beadlike bubbles.

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.

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.

of Bead

Alt. of Bedehouse

of Bead

Molding in imitation of beads.

The beads or bead-forming quality of certain liquors; as, the beading of a brand of whisky.

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.

An officer in a university, who precedes public processions of officers and students.

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.

Office or jurisdiction of a beadle.

The state of being, or the personality of, a beadle.

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.

Alt. of Bedesman

A small poisonous snake of North America (Elaps fulvius), banded with yellow, red, and black.

Alt. of Bedeswoman

Ornamental work in beads.