Vocabulary : Beaconless to Beadroll
Beaconless : Having no beacon.Bead : A prayer. ;; A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer. ;; 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; as, the borax bead; the iron bead, etc. ;; To ornament with beads or beading. ;; To form beadlike bubbles.
Bead proof : 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. ;; 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.
Beaded : of Bead
Beadhouse : Alt. of Bedehouse
