bead

/biːd/ · noun

Meaning

Prayer, later especially with a rosary.
Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.
A small, round object.
(heading) A ridge, band, or molding.
Knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.
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 form into a bead.
To apply beads to.
To form into a bead.
To cause beads to form on (something).

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