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One of the beads in nulled work.
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A rosary, consisting of a hundred and fifty beads, corresponding to the number of the psalms.
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A musical instrument formerly in use, consisting of several sticks bound together, but separated by beads, and played with a stick with a ball at its end.
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A tool for making creases or beads, as in sheet iron, or for rounding small tubes.
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A string of beads, or part of a string, used by Roman Catholic in praying; a third of a rosary, or fifty beads.
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One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.
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Joined or constricted, at regular intervals, so as to resemble a string of beads; as, a moniliform root; a moniliform antenna. See Illust. of Antenna.
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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.
v. t.
To put upon a wire; as, to wire beads.
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To deprive of a string or strings; also, to take from a string; as, to unstring beads.
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A string of beads, etc., or any continuous band or chain, worn around the neck as an ornament.
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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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A Mohammedan rosary, consisting of ninety-nine beads.
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One of a class of paupers or pensioners, or licensed beggars, in Scotland, to whim annually on the king's birthday were distributed certain alms, including a blue gown; a beadsman.
v. t.
To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.
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A beadsman; one bound to pray for another.
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The name used by the Algonquin Indians for the shell beads which passed among the Indians as money.
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A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. "A pair of beads." Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. "Four pair of stairs." Macaulay. [Now mostly or quite disused, except as to stairs.]
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A small molding, carved into beads, pearls, olives, etc.
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A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged; a succession; a concatenation; a chain; as, a string of shells or beads; a string of dried apples; a string of houses; a string of arguments.
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