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Definition bead
Etymology
From Middle English bede (“a prayer”), also “a bead for counting prayers” in a peire of bedes (literally “a pair of beads”), from Old English bedu, bed, ?ebed (“a request, entreaty, prayer”), from Proto-Germanic *bed?, *bed?, *gabed? (“plea, prayer”). Cognate with Dutch bede and gebed (“a prayer”) German Gebet (“a prayer”). More at bede.
Noun
bead (plural beads)
- (archaic) Prayer, later especially with a rosary. [from 9c.]
- Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster. [from 14c.]
- A small round object.
- (heading) A ridge, band, or molding.
- A rigid edge of a tire that mounts it on a wheel; tire bead. [from 20c.]
- (architecture) A narrow molding with semicircular section.
- Knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.
- (chemistry, dated) 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.
- Front sight of a gun.
Verb
bead (third-person singular simple present beads, present participle beading, simple past and past participle beaded)
- (intransitive) To form into a bead.
- (transitive) To apply beads to.
- (transitive) To form into a bead.
- (transitive) To cause beads to form on (something).
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