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Ornamental work in beads.

Resembling beads; small, round, and glistening. "Beady eyes." Thackeray.

A small hound, or hunting dog, twelve to fifteen inches high, used in hunting hares and other small game. See Illustration in Appendix.

Anything projecting or ending in a point, like a beak, as a promontory of land. Carew.

Having a beak or a beaklike point; beak-shaped. "Each beaked promontory." Milton.

A large drinking cup, with a wide mouth, supported on a foot or standard.

An ornament used in rich Norman doorways, resembling a head with a beak. Parker.

A bickern; a bench anvil with a long beak, adapted to reach the interior surface of sheet metal ware; the horn of an anvil.

A small inflammatory tumor; a pustule. [Prov. Eng.]

Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.

A tree (Pyrus aria) related to the apple.

A small European flycatcher (Muscicapa gricola), so called because it often nests on a beam in a building.

Furnished with beams, as the head of a stag. Tost his beamed frontlet to the sky. Sir W. Scott.

Beamy; radiant.

In a beaming manner.

The state of being beamy.

Emitting beams; radiant.

In a beaming manner; radiantly.

Not having a beam.

A small beam of light.