Bead Synonyms & Definitions

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• BeadDefinition & Meaning in English

(v. i.) To form beadlike bubbles.
(n.) A prayer.
(n.) A bubble in spirits.
(n.) Any small globular body
(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 ones beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer.
(n.) A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim).
(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.
(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.
(v. t.) To ornament with beads or beading.
(n.) A drop of sweat or other liquid.

• BeadingDefinition & Meaning in English

(n.) The beads or bead-forming quality of certain liquors; as, the beading of a brand of whisky.
(n.) Molding in imitation of beads.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bead

• Bead proofDefinition & Meaning in English

() 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.

• BeadswomanDefinition & Meaning in English

(n.) Alt. of Bedeswoman