English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Bead
(n.)
Any small globular body
Bead
(v. t.)
To ornament with beads or beading.
Bead
(v. i.)
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.
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.
Beadswoman
(n.)
Alt. of Bedeswoman
Beadwork
(n.)
Ornamental work in beads.