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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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v. t.
To deprive of a string or strings; also, to take from a string; as, to unstring beads.
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Covered or ornamented with, or as with, beads.
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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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Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament.
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Molding in imitation of beads.
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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.
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The state of being, or the personality of, a beadle.
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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.
v. t.
To ornament with beads or beading.
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Characterized by beads; as, beady liquor.
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Office or jurisdiction of a beadle.
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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.
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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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The beads or bead-forming quality of certain liquors; as, the beading of a brand of whisky.
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Resembling beads; small, round, and glistening.
v. i.
To form beadlike bubbles.
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Ornamental work in beads.
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