Word Finder - beads

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Prayer, later especially with a rosary.

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Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.

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A small, round object.

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(heading) A ridge, band, or molding.

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Knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.

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We now have a bead on the main technical issues for the project

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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.

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the borax bead;  the iron bead, etc.

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Front sight of a gun.

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To form into a bead.

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The raindrops beaded on the car's waxed finish.

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To apply beads to.

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She spent the morning beading the gown.

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To form into a bead.

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He beaded some solder for the ends of the wire.

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To cause beads to form on (something).

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A beaded necklace.

The look on Jessi's face when he'd crushed the red beads disturbed him.

Xander sifted through Ashley's colorful beads, uninterested.

If Brandon and Ashley were around, there would be little messes and beads everywhere.

A strand of wampum, consisting of purple and white shell-beads or a belt woven with figures formed by beads of different colours, operated on the principle of associating a particular fact with a particular string or figure, thus giving a serial arrangement to the facts as well as fidelity to the memory.

Modern Venetian beads are similarly coiled.

Beads of baked earth, cylindrical and of all shapes, with smooth or polished surfaces, mostly black and red in colour, were chiefly in use.

Although they were the same shape, they were lighter, like comparing plastic beads to glass ones.

Today, she'd give anything just to have Ashley back, no matter how long it took her to fix the vacuum cleaner after it choked on the beads.

The graves at Hallstatt were partly inhumation partly cremation; they contained swords, daggers, spears, javelins, axes, helmets, bosses and plates of shields and hauberks, brooches, various forms of jewelry, amber and glass beads, many of the objects being decorated with animals and geometrical designs.

In the afternoon I did crafts and I made an anklet out of beads, which rolled all over the floor.

But Fitzgerald had no honor guard, and no beads.

Gladys waddled downstairs, strung in more beads than the draped back room doorway of a Turkish dope den.

Katie ate her food and water cubes, waiting for Gabriel.  She fingered the second necklace he'd given her, not convinced Andre was wrong.  The beads felt like plastic, and something about Gabe had changed.

A white desk crammed in a corner was covered with teen magazines, and a box of beads had spilled and scattered a rainbow across the carpet.

Her eyes lingered on Ashley's precious beads.

She grabbed a handful of beads and dumped them into the bin, stopping when the flash of red caught her attention.

Struck by an idea, she piled all the beads into the box before unfastening the clasp on Xander's necklace.

Beads of'amber occur with Anglo-Saxon relics in the south of England; and up to a comparatively recent period the material was valued as an amulet.

Beads of amethyst are found in Anglo-Saxon graves in England.

Venetian beads are now sent in large quantities to the various colonies in Africa, and to India, Sumatra and Borneo.

When present in sufficient quantity the five last-named give enamel-white beads; lead oxide in excess gives a yellowish bead.

A point of importance as to the prehistoric period was scored by the discovery in the same neighbourhood at Gerzeh by Mr. Wainwright of iron beads on a necklace.

Dingiswayo also encouraged trade and opened relations with the Portuguese at Delagoa Bay, bartering ivory and oxen for brass and beads.

The evidence, however, hardly warrants the abandonment of the simple process of blowing in favour of a process which is so difficult that it may almost be said to be impossible, and of which there is no record or tradition except in connexion with the manufacture of small beads.

Besides the making of vessels of all kinds the factories of Murano had for a long period almost an entire monopoly of two other branches of the art - the making of mirrors and of beads.

The making of beads was probably practised at Venice from a very early period, but the earliest documentary evidence bearing on the subject does not appear to be of earlier date than the 14th century, when prohibitions were directed against those who made of glass such objects as were usually made of crystal or other hard stones.

In the 16th century it had become a trade of great importance, and about 1764 twenty-two furnaces were employed in the production of beads.

Towards the end of the same century from 600 to 1000 workmen were, it is stated, employed on one branch of the art, that of ornamenting beads by the help of the blow-pipe.

The principal administrative departments are those already named, whose beads form the presidents cabinet.

In many other cases, however, the grave contained nothing except a small knife and a simple brooch or a few beads.

These men were specially Service trained at Dehra Dun in the work of surveying, and entered Tibet with a strong wooden box with a specially concealed secret drawer for holding observing instruments, .a prayer wheel with rolls of blank paper instead of prayers in the barrel on which observations might be noted, and lamaic rosaries by the beads of which each hundred paces might be counted.

The ornaments are beads, earrings, brooches, rings, bracelets, &c., thickly studded with precious stones.

The variegated glass beads belonging to Italy were greatly used in Egypt in Roman times, and are like those found elsewhere.

Beads were made by winding thin threads of glass on copper wires, and the greater contraction of the copper freed the bead when cold.

Roman glass beads are always drawn out, and nicked off hot, with striation Iengthways; except the large opaque variegated beads which are coiled.

In the XXIIIrd Dynasty beads of a rich transparent Prussian blue glass were made, until the XXVIth.

There are five kinds of currency in the islands, consisting of beads of glass and enamel, to which a supernatural origin is ascribed.

Thus in England in the 16th century it took the form of a direction to the people what to remember in "bidding their beads."

The term wampum or wampum-peage was apparently applied to the beads only when strung or woven together.

Thus where six wampum went to the penny, the fathom consisted of 360 beads; but where four made a penny, as under the Massachusetts standard of 1640, then the fathom counted 240.

The beads were at first worth more than five shillings per fathom, the price at which they passed current in 1643.

In this sect, children are solemnly admitted to full membership at the early age of four, and even two, years of age, when a rosary, or necklace, of 108 beads of basil (tulsi) wood is passed round their necks, and they are taught the use of the octo-syllabic formula Sri-Krishnah saranam mama, " Holy Krishna is my refuge."

The stories that he told grew in their passage from mouth to mouth until the Spaniards believed that in the north were cities " very rich, having silversmiths, and that the women wore strings of gold beads and the men girdles of gold."

Indium salts can be recognized by the dark blue colour they give in the flame of the Bunsen burner; and by the white beads of metal and the yellow incrustation formed when heated on charcoal with sodium carbonate.

Dean grabbed the front seat for balance, nearly losing his beads as they joined the flow.

He was amazed at the wild scramble prompted by his tossed offerings, especially the beads.

As long as Ashley didn't play with her beads anytime soon … Shit, Jessi.

Children can lace soft beads and plastic spacers in a multitude of combinations.

Her rosary beads hang gently down in front of her.

It's a beading machine that feeds a series of assorted beads onto hair for that boho look.