bead : Idioms & Phrases

• (Arch.), a bead worked on or fixed to the angle of any architectural work, esp. for protecting an angle of a wall.

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• (Carp.), framing in which the panels are flush, having beads stuck or run upon the two edges. Knight.

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• noun beading formed with a narrow groove separating it from the surface it decorates
  bead and quirk.
  

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• noun beautiful spreading fern of eastern North America and eastern Asia naturalized in western Europe; pinnately divided fronds show a slight tendency to fold when touched; pinnules enclose groups of sori in beadlike lobes
  sensitive fern; Onoclea sensibilis.
  

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1. 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.
2. 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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• a cutting tool, having an edge curved so as to make beads or beading.

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• noun small tree of West Indies and northeastern Venezuela having large oblong pointed leaflets and panicles of purple flowers; seeds are black or scarlet with black spots
  jumby tree; Ormosia monosperma; jumby bean.
  

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• (Bot.), a tree of the genus Melia, the best known species of which (M. azedarach), has blue flowers which are very fragrant, and berries which are poisonous.

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• noun lizard with black and yellowish beadlike scales; of western Mexico
  beaded lizard; Heloderma horridum.
  

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• noun a plane with a concave blade for making moulding with beadwork
  

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• a species of fungus or mold, the stems of which consist of single cells loosely jointed together so as to resemble a string of beads. Written also bead mould.

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• noun erect shrub with small if any spines having racemes of white to yellow flowers followed by curved pointed pods and black shiny seeds; West Indies and Florida
  cat's-claw; Pithecellodium unguis-cati; catclaw.
  

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• . (Chem.) See Bead, n., 3.

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• verb aim with a gun
  
  • The hunter drew a bead on the rabbit
• verb have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal
  aspire; shoot for; aim.
  

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• noun West Indian tree similar to Ormosia monosperma but larger and having smaller leaflets and smaller seeds
  jumbie bead; Ormosia coarctata.
  

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• noun West Indian tree similar to Ormosia monosperma but larger and having smaller leaflets and smaller seeds
  jumbie bead; Ormosia coarctata.
  

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• noun lizard with black and yellowish beadlike scales; of western Mexico
  beaded lizard; Heloderma horridum.
  

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• noun a string of beads used in counting prayers (especially by Catholics)
  rosary.
  

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• noun beading formed with a narrow groove separating it from the surface it decorates
  bead and quirk.
  

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• (Paleon.), the fossil joints of crinoid stems.

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• (Arch.), the molding screwed to the inner side of a window frame, on the face of the pulley stile, completing the groove in which the inner sash is to slide.

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• noun several beads threaded together on a string
  beads.
  

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• to pray with beads, as the Roman Catholics; to distinguish each bead by a prayer. Obs.

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• noun North American herb with white poisonous berries
  white baneberry; Actaea alba; white cohosh; doll's eyes.
  

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