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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.
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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.
n.
Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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n.
Office or jurisdiction of a beadle.
a.
Characterized by beads; as, beady liquor.
n.
Molding in imitation of beads.
imp. & p. p.
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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 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.
v. t.
To deprive of a string or strings; also, to take from a string; as, to unstring beads.
v. t.
To ornament with beads or beading.
v. i.
To form beadlike bubbles.
n.
Ornamental work in beads.
n.
A series of prayers (see Note below) arranged to be recited in order, on beads; also, a string of beads by which the prayers are counted.
n.
The beads or bead-forming quality of certain liquors; as, the beading of a brand of whisky.
n.
The state of being, or the personality of, a beadle.
a.
Resembling beads; small, round, and glistening.
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.
a.
Covered or ornamented with, or as with, beads.
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