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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.

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.

Beadswoman (n.)

Alt. of Bedeswoman

Beadwork (n.)

Ornamental work in beads.