bead

• a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture
• a small ball with a hole through the middle
• a shape that is spherical and small
• form into beads, as of water or sweat, for example
• decorate by sewing beads onto
• string together like beads
• A prayer
• A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament
• Any small globular body
• A bubble in spirits
• A drop of sweat or other liquid
• A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim)
• A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments
• 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
• To ornament with beads or beading
• To form beadlike bubbles

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