BEAD
\bˈiːd], \bˈiːd], \b_ˈiː_d]\
Definitions of BEAD
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture
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string together like beads
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decorate by sewing beads onto; "bead the wedding gown"
By Princeton University
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a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture
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string together like beads
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decorate by sewing beads onto
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A prayer.
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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 one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer.
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Any small globular body
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A bubble in spirits.
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A drop of sweat or other liquid.
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A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim).
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A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments.
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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.
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To ornament with beads or beading.
By Oddity Software
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A prayer.
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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 one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer.
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Any small globular body
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A bubble in spirits.
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A drop of sweat or other liquid.
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A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim).
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A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments.
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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.
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To ornament with beads or beading.
By Noah Webster.
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A prayer.
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A little ball pierced for stringing, used in counting the prayers recited, also used as an ornament: any small ball.
By Daniel Lyons
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A little ball of any material, pierced through and intended to be strung with others and worn as an ornament, or to form a rosary, etc.; any small body shaped like a little globe; a drop or bubble; as, a bead of perspiration; a small knob of metal at the end of a gun-barrel used in taking aim; hence, to draw a bead is to take aim; a narrow, rounded molding or projecting band.
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To ornament with beading.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To decorate with or as with beads; collect in beads; bubble; foam; sparkle.
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A little perforated sphere, or the like, intended to be strung on a thread.
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A rosary; hence, prayers.
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A bubble or bubbles of gas on a liquid; froth; a knob used as the front sight of a gun.
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A small convex molding.
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Beady.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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