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A string of beads, etc., or any continuous band or chain, worn around the neck as an ornament.

Wearing a necklace; marked as with a necklace. The hooded and the necklaced snake. Sir W. Jones.

A jeweled chain, necklace, or collar. [Also written carkenet and carcant.] Shak.

giarize; as, to crib a line from Milton. [Colloq.] Child, being fond of toys, cribbed the necklace. Dickens.

or forming one of a series, as a knob of a cover to a dish, or a flower- shaped part in a necklace.

s in the Bahamas, and having a shelly covering. They are strung like beads, and made into necklaces by the natives. -- Ground pig (Zoöl.), a large, burrowing, African rodent (Aulacodus Swinderianus) about two feet long, allied to the porcupines but with harsh, bristly hair, and no spines; -- called also ground rat. -…

e wild licorice (Abrus precatorius) used by the people of India for beads in rosaries and necklaces, as a standard weight, etc.; -- called also jumble bead.

A small lock; a catch or spring to fasten a necklace or other ornament.

A necklace. E. Anold.

A necklace of diamonds or other precious stones, esp. one of several strings.

A chank shell (Turbinella pyrum); also, a shell bracelet or necklace made in India from the chank shell.

ruits of some species are used instead of soap, and their round black seeds are made into necklaces.

means of a spring, or one which closes with a snapping sound, as the catch of a bracelet, necklace, clasp of a book, etc.

A necklace of a rural fashion, bought at St. Audrey's fair; hence, a necklace in general. [Obs.] Of which the Naiads and the blue Nereids make Them tawdries for their necks. Drayton.

handsomely banded with black, and is sometimes worn alive by the natives of Brazil for a necklace.