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common in the southern United States; -- called also, Pride of India, Pride of China, and Bead tree.

A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead.

,n.Same as Beadhouse.

,n.Same as Beadle.

Beadleship. [Obs.] Blount.

Same as Beadsman. [Obs.]

; to request to come. As many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. Matt. xxii. 9 To bid beads, to pray with beads, as the Roman Catholics; to distinguish each bead by a prayer. [Obs.] -- To bid defiance to , to defy openly; to brave. -- To bid fair, to offer a good prospect; to make fair promise; to seem likely.…

One dressed in blue, as a soldier, a sailor, a beadle, etc.

m annually on the king's birthday were distributed certain alms, including a blue gown; a beadsman.

the name of tincal. Borax is a pyroborate or tetraborate of sodium, Na2B4O7.10H2O. Borax bead. (Chem.) See Bead, n., 3.

The forehead; as, a feverish brow. Beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow. Shak.

of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river. Beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow, Like bubbles in a late disturbed stream. Shak.

An elingated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black.

and bounds are those on the sides, or sidings, as they were formerly termed. Burrill. -- Bead and butt. See under Bead. -- Butt and butt, joining end to end without overlapping, as planks. -- Butt weld (Mech.), a butt joint, made by welding together the flat ends, or edges, of a piece of iron or steel, or of separat…

A string of beads, or part of a string, used by Roman Catholic in praying; a third of a rosary, or fifty beads. Her chaplet of beads and her missal. Longfellow.

A Mohammedan rosary, consisting of ninety-nine beads. Byron.

Elegant; polite; courtlike; flattering. In courtly company or at my beads. Shak.

A tool for making creases or beads, as in sheet iron, or for rounding small tubes.

A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water. Here be, without duck or nod, Other trippings to be trod. Milton. Bombay duck (Zoöl.), a fish. See Bummalo. -- Buffel duck, or Spirit duck. See Buffel duck. -- Duck ant (Zoöl.), a species of white ant in Jamaica whic…

A glassy, opaque bead obtained by the blowpipe.