beadn.

Brit.

/biːd/, U.S.

/bid/

Forms: Old English–Middle English bed, Middle English beode, Middle English–1600s, and (archaically) 1800s bede, Middle English bed, beed, Middle English–1500s bedde, beid, 1500s–1600s beade, Middle English– bead.

Etymology: Middle English bede , plural bedes , beden , perhaps representing an Old English *bedu , *bed (feminine) = Old Frisian bede , Old Saxon beda , Middle Dutch and Dutch bede , Old High German beta , Middle High German bete , modern German bitte , Gothic bida (strong feminine), < Gothic bidjan , in Old English biddan to pray: see bid v.¹ But an Old English bedu is doubtful, and bed occurs only in combination (bed-hús, etc.), the regular Old English word being gebed (neuter), in Middle English ibed, ? ibede, plural ibeoden, from which bede may have arisen by aphesis in early Middle English The name was transferred from ‘prayer’ to the small globular bodies used for ‘telling beads,’ i.e. counting prayers said, from which the other senses naturally followed.

I. Prayer, and connected senses.

†1.

a. Prayer; plural prayers, devotions. Obsolete.

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society > faith > worship > prayer > [noun] > prayers

beadc885

devotional1659

devotion-

c885 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. i. vii. (Bosw.) Ðæt he sceolde ða bedu anescian.

c1200 Trin. Col. Hom. 193 Þe þridde is bede.

c1200 Trin. Col. Hom. 163 On salmes, and on songes, and on holde bedes.

c1200 Trin. Col. Hom. 201 Alle holie beden ben..biheue.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 36 Beon ibeoden.

c1305 St. Lucy 37 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 102 Þer hi leye in hire bedes.

1330 R. Mannyng Chron. 202 Better is holy bede.

c1330 King of Tars 643 With beodes and with preyere.

c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 15 Ȝif he be bese in his bedus.

c1430 Hymns Virg. (1867) 6 To þee y make my beed.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxiii. f. cxxxiii^v I hoped to haue ben saued by your Bedes & prayers.

1554 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 92 Went unto the crosse, & stode there alle the [sermon] tyme, & whan he came unto the beddes they turnyd unto the precher & knelyd downe.

b. In later usage (after sense 2 became the popular one) there was almost always a reference direct or indirect to the use of the rosary.

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?a1550 Pore helpe 369 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. III. 265 Take you to your beades; All men and women..That useth so to praye.

?1589 T. Nashe Almond for Parrat sig. 14^v [He] would haue run a false gallop ouer his beades with anie man in England.

1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. F5^v Be briefe in praying: Few Beads are best, when once we goe a Maying.

1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxix. 105 I begun..to say the Lord's Prayer. None of your Beads to me, Pamela, said he, thou art a perfect Nun.

c. to bid a bead: to offer a prayer; hence beads bidding, the saying of prayers. Also to say one's beads.

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society > faith > worship > prayer > pray [verb (intransitive)]

i-bid971

bidc1175

ure?c1225

prayc1300

to bid a beada1325

to say one's beadsa1325

tellc1450

to tell or count one's beads1641

society > faith > worship > prayer > [noun] > action of or offering of

bidding of prayersc1175

orison?c1250

bidding1297

prayerc1300

beads biddinga1325

sacrificec1595

presentation1597

pray1654

davening1947

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2981 Moyses bad is bede.

c1330 Assump. Virg. 876 To ihesu þei bede a bede.

c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. (1871) II. 420 How þei shulen bidde her bedis.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 225 He travailled besiliche in bedes byddynge.

1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Idolatry iii, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 236 For the which they pray in their beads bidding.

1597 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. f. 11 The beades that we will bid shall be sweet kisses.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia (at cited word) To say our Bedes, is to say our prayers.]

1681 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Reformation: 2nd Pt. 55 All the people said their beads in a general silence.

1764 T. Gray Let. 19 Nov. in Corr. (1971) II. 852 Bidding his beads for the souls of his benefactors.

1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise I. i. 152 To fetch the priest..To bury her and say her bede.

a. A small perforated ball or other body, a series of which (formerly called ‘a pair of beads’) threaded upon a string, forms the rosary or paternoster, used for keeping count of the number of prayers said.

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society > faith > artefacts > implement (general) > rosary > [noun] > bead of

bead1377

prayer bead1630

paddhereen1689

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xv. 119 A peyre bedes in her hande And a boke vnder hire arme.

1446 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 124 A pare of bedes of corall with gaudes of gete.

1483 Cath. Angl. 24/1 A bede, precula.

1533 T. More Answere Poysened Bk. iv. xii. f. ccxxxi^v Away with our ladys psalter, and cast the bedys in y^e fyre.

c1550 Auentur on Weddinsd. (Bannatyne MS.) Ane pair of beids about hir throt.

1570 Act 13 Eliz. ii. §7 Crosses, Pictures, Beads and such like superstitious Things.

1653 J. Collinges Responsoria ad Erratica Piscatoris sig. A2 I no where read, That thy Apostles ever us'd a Bead.

1697 Countess D'Aunoy's Trav. (1706) 142 She presented me with a pair of Beads of Paulo d'Aguila, a curious sort of wood.

1743 A. Pope Ess. Man (new ed.) ii. 280 Beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age.

b. to tell or count one's beads: to say one's prayers. to pray without one's beads: to be ‘out of one's reckoning’.

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society > faith > worship > prayer > pray [verb (intransitive)]

i-bid971

bidc1175

ure?c1225

prayc1300

to bid a beada1325

to say one's beadsa1325

tellc1450

to tell or count one's beads1641

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > mistake [phrase]

to miss the cushiona1529

to get, have, or take the (or a) wrong (or right) sow by the ear1546

to pray without one's beads1641

to have the wrong end of the stick?1793

to bark up the wrong tree1832

the boot (is) on the wrong leg or foot1834

to have another think coming1896

you have another guess coming1935

to be off the beam1941

blow1943

1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper iii. 188 Telling the panes of glasse, as fast as a Papist doth his Beads.

1656 F. Osborne Disc. Machiavell in Polit. Reflect. Govt. Turks 129 In which he prayed without his Beads, being so farre out [printed ont], in the account, as that, [etc.].

1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy II. xvii. 123 Cross himself;—tell his beads;—be a good Catholick.

1792 J. Barlow Conspiracy of Kings 78 He counts his beads, and spends his holy zeal.

1816 S. T. Coleridge Christabel ii. 28 The sacristan..Five and forty beads must tell.

1878 B. Taylor Prince Deukalion ii. i. 53 Five hundred have I told upon these beads.

1883 J. Gilmour Among Mongols xvii. 205 Counting beads and making pilgrimages.

II. Extensions of sense 2.

a. A small perforated body, spherical or otherwise, of glass, amber, metal, wood, etc., used as an ornament, either strung in a series to form a necklace, bracelet, etc., or sewn upon various fabrics.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > bead

beadc1400

bugle1573

bead-stone1677

bugle bead1713

poppit1955

c1400 Destr. Troy xv. 7044 Garmentes full gay..Bright beidis & Brasse broght þai with-all.

1589 Voy. W. Towrson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 108 About their neckes great beades of glasse of diuerse colours.

1647 A. Cowley Bargain in Mistress ii The foolish Indian that sells His precious Gold for Beads and Bells.

1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. xxii. 128 Their old way of reckoning..is with beads on wires, which they work without pen and ink.

1836 F. Marryat Japhet I. xviii. 226 A long chain of round coral and gold beads.

figurative.1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. ii. 331 You minimus..You bead, you acorne. 1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 97 Quincy's [life] was strung with seventy active years, each one a rounded bead of usefulness and service.

b. (The plural is commonly used in sense of a string of beads for the neck; formerly the singular seems to have been occasionally so used.)

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > jewellery of specific shape or form > [noun] > bead(s)

graina1350

juniper-beads1486

beadc1500

adder-stone1587

bead-stone1677

adder-bead1694

wampumpeag1705

wampum1753

strand1825

society > faith > worship > prayer > [noun] > prayers > with use of rosary

beada1616

society > faith > worship > prayer > kinds of prayer > [noun] > using the rosary > collect

beada1616

c1500 Mayd Emlyn in Anc. Poet. Tracts (1842) 21 And sayth that she lackes Many prety knackes, As bedes and gyrdels gaye.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iv. iii. 58 With Amber Bracelets, Beades, and all this knau'ry.

1650 H. Vaughan Silex Scintillans 57 Ther's one Sun more strung on my Bead of days.

1887 N.E.D. at Bead Mod. Do they wear beads? She cannot find her beads.

4. In various transferred senses applied to things having some of the characteristics of 3.

a. A bead-like drop of liquid or of molten metal. spec. of sweat, esp. on the face.

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the world > matter > liquid > [noun] > a quantity of > small > globular

dropc825

tearOE

pearlc1425

dripc1440

bead1598

dropleta1616

blob1725

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. iv. 58 Beads [1623 beds] of sweat haue stood vpon thy brow.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iii. i. 287 Seeing those Beads of sorrow stand in thine.

1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 19 My hearts deare treasure Drops bloud (the onely beads) my words to measure.

1854 J. Scoffern in Orr's Circle Sci., Chem. Chem. 507 The bead of impure silver is seen to emit fumes.

1888 A. C. Gunter Mr. Potter v [He] wipes the great beads of exhausted toil from his forehead.

1888 A. C. Gunter Mr. Potter v The beads of perspiration.

b. A bubble of foam; spec. a bubble in spirits, sparkling wines, etc.; the foam or head upon certain beverages. Cf. bead-proof adj. at Compounds 2b.

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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > types or qualities of intoxicating liquor > [noun] > sparkling quality > bubble

intoxication1674

bead1753

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Bead is also used for a little, round, white froth formed on the surface of brandy, or spirit of wine, upon shaking the glass.

1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 181 An eye which outsparkles The beads of the wine.

1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies vii. 255 Swimming about among the foam-beads below.

1883 Harper's Mag. Nov. 894/2 There is..a finer bead on this wine of mirth.

c. A clear nacreous spot on the surface of shells.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > bodies or parts > [noun] > hard outer covering > clear, nacreous spot on

bead1842

1842 Johnston in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 x. 32 The clear spots or beads of the transverse lines [on a shell] are much larger.

d. The small metal knob which forms the front sight of a gun; esp. in the phrase (of U.S. origin) to draw a bead upon: to take aim at. Also figurative.

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the world > space > direction > direct [verb (transitive)] > aim at

mete1598

rove1598

levy1618

mean1633

to cover (with a gun, pistol, etc.)1693

to draw a bead upon1831

target1837

sight1871

bead1888

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > sight > types of

dispart1578

telescopic sight1674

plain sight1686

aim-frontlet1745

hausse1787

foresight1806

gloaming sight1817

night-sight1822

bead1831

leaf1832

backsight1847

globe sight1847

pendulum hausse1850

hindsight1851

tangent scale1859

tangent1861

tangent backsight1862

training pendulum1862

training level1863

peep sight1866

dispart-sight1867

notch sight1867

buck-horn1877

orthoptic1881

aperturea1884

pinball-sighta1884

dispart patch1884

sight bar1884

flap-sight1887

barley-corn1896

ring sight1901

riflescope1902

spotting scope1904

tangent sight1908

Aldis sight1918

wind-sight1923

scope sight1934

gyro-sight1942

1831 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. I. 294 He raised his piece until the bead (that being the name given by the Kentuckians to the sight) of the barrel was brought to a line with the spot he intended to hit.

1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians I. x. 77 I made several attempts to get near enough to ‘draw a bead’ upon one of them.

1844 F. Marryat Settlers in Canada II. 206 ‘Now, John,’ said Malachi; ‘get your bead well on him.’

1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 391 The front sight is that known as the bead-sight, which consists of a small steel needle, with a little head upon it like the head of an ordinary pin, enclosed in a steel tube. In aiming with this sight, the eye is directed..to the bead in the tube.

1919 Chambers's Jrnl. June 399/1 I'd got a lovely bead on her with one of my own torpedoes.

1929 G. Mitchell Myst. Butcher's Shop xii. 132 You've got a bead on your man all right.

e. A string of sponges; see quot. 1885.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Parazoa > phylum Porifera > [noun] > member of > string of sponges

bead1885

1885 A. Brassey In Trades 339 The sponges are strung upon small palmetto strips, three or four to a strip, which is called a ‘bead.’

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a. Architecture. A small globular ornament, commonly applied in a row like a string of beads. Also in the names of various ornamental designs, as bead and butt, bead flush, bead reel, etc.

b. A narrow moulding having a semicircular section.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > decoration specifically in relief > [noun] > mouldings and grooves

swage1374

ogee1591

mouldure1628

moulding1679

swaging1688

cock bead1778

cock beading1788

bead1799

cable-moulding1859

pearling1883

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > other mouldings

bowtell1376

crownwork1594

protypum1601

chaplet1623

bandeleta1645

bedding-moulding1664

quadra1664

surbase1678

platband1696

bed-moulding1703

eyebrow1703

square1703

gorge1706

nerve1728

heel1734

quirk-moulding1776

star1781

bead1799

rope moulding1813

zigzag1814

chevron-moulding1815

nebule1823

billet1835

dancette1838

pellet moulding1838

vignette moulding1842

bird's beak moulding1845

beak-head ornament1848

beak-head1849

billet moulding1851

beading1858

bead-work1881

Venetian dentil1892

chevron-work-

1799 , etc. Bead and flush [see flush adj.¹ 5b].

1802 Gentleman's Mag. 72 ii. 1118 Bead, a globular ornament peculiar to Saxon architecture, carved in the mouldings.

1803 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 93 171 On the edges..a small regular raised bead or moulding was formed.

1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. xxi. 256 I think bead a bad word for a continuous moulding.

1861 J. H. Parker Introd. Study Gothic Archit. (ed. 2) Gloss. 242 Bead,..an ornament resembling a row of beads.

1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding xi. 233 Beads of india-rubber are fitted in the rabbets of the frame.

1904 P. Macquoid Hist. Eng. Furnit. I. vii. 191 The sides are inlaid with the bead and spindle, or husk design so popular at this time.

1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Bead and butt, bead and reel.

1937 W. Rose Village Carpenter iv. 42 The outside doors to the ordinary house were made to the still well-known orders of ‘bead and butt’ or ‘bead and flush’.

1955 R. Fastnedge Eng. Furnit. Styles 280 Bead and reel, a decorative border found in the form of inlay in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

c. Used of any thickened, rounded edge (cf. bead rim n. at Compounds 2b).

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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > [noun] > that which forms the edge or border > thickened and rounded

beaded1917

bead rim1936

bead1962

1962 Gloss. Terms Glass Ind. (B.S.I.) 27 Bead, an enlarged, rounded edge of a glass article, or any raised section extending around the article.

6. beads of St. Elline: certain round roots brought out of Florida (Bullokar 1616). St. Martin's beads: (the sanctuary of St. Martin's-le-Grand, London, was a noted resort of makers of sham jewellery. F. Cohen. in Archæol. XVIII. 55, quotes an ordinance of the Star Chamber in 36 Hen. VI. for the regulation of that sanctuary, by which it is declared that ‘no workers of counterfeit cheynes, beades, broaches, owches, rings, cups, and spoons silvered, should be suffered therein.’) Baily's beads: a phenomenon observed in total eclipses of the sun; see quotations. Wilson's or Lovis's beads: a series of globular bodies of different densities, formerly used to determine the specific gravity of a spirit into which they were thrown one by one.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > [noun] > imitation

doublet1449

St. Martin's beads1616

triplet1877

snide1885

junk1904

costume jewellery1907

slum1914

junk jewellery1920

the world > the universe > sun > sunlight > [noun] > eclipse

annular eclipse1728

Baily's beads1861

shadow-band1891

1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Beades of Saint Elline, certaine round roots brought out of Florida, which being drie are very hard, on the outside blacke, and inwardly white: of a sweet smel and good taste.

1678 S. Butler Ladies Answer to Knight in Hudibras: Third Pt. 266 Those False S. Martins beads.

1861 G. F. Chambers Handbk. Descr. Astron. ii. ii. 95 When the disc of the Moon advancing over that of the Sun has reduced the latter to a thin crescent, it is usually noticed that immediately before the beginning and after the end of complete obscuration, the crescent appears as a band of brilliant points, separated by dark spaces so as to give it the appearance of a string of beads..These phenomena are generally known as Baily's beads, having received their name from the late Mr. Francis Baily, who was the first to describe them in detail... The earliest account of the..beads is contained in Halley's Memoir on the total eclipse of 1715.

1874 S. Johnson Eclipses 66 An eclipse of the sun a.d. 1836, May 15..Famous for what is known as ‘Baily's beads’ noticed by Mr. Baily, at Jedburgh, in Roxburghshire.

1878 S. Newcomb Pop. Astron. iii. iii. 314 ‘Baily's beads’ ..are caused by the sun shining through the depressions between the lunar mountains.

Compounds

C1. attributive and in other combinations (mostly archaic, and, when used by modern writers, often spelt bede). Also bead-roll n., beadsman n.

bead-child n. a child that prays for the welfare of a benefactor or relative.

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society > faith > worship > prayer > [noun] > one who performs > child praying for benefactor or relative

bead-child?1499

?1499 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 140 Your good son & beadchild, German Pole.

bead-folk n. people (often pensioners) who pray for a benefactor.

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the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > poor person > poor person in receipt of relief > collectively

almsfolk1460

bead-folk?1465

pauperage1831

pauperism1857

?1465 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 15 Others your well willers, servants, and bed folkes.

1849 D. Rock Church of our Fathers III. viii. 134 To live and do as bead-folks should.

bead-house n. (northern dialect beadus Welsh Bettws), originally a house of prayer, hence an alms-house, the inmates of which were to pray for the soul of the founder.

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society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > oratory > [noun]

bead-housec1160

oratorya1382

oratourc1400

oraculum1565

proseucha1602

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > institutional homes > [noun] > for the poor, infirm, etc.

bead-housec1160

spittle?c1225

spittle-housec1315

maison dieu1354

almshouse1395

hospital14..

God's house1425

hospitality1571

townhouse1597

guest house1600

gifts1651

college1694

asylum1776

hospice1818

group home1873

pogey1891

c1160 Hatton Gosp. Matt. xxi. 13 Min hus ys bed-hus [Ags. G. gebed-hus].

1485 in J. T. Fowler Acts Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1875) 277 The bedehouse beside the Mawdelayns.

1774 T. West Antiq. Furness (1805) 180 Lodgyns and bed-howses for x poor men.

1864 J. C. Atkinson Whitby Gloss. Beadus or Beadhouse, an almshouse.

1866 J. M. Neale Sequences & Hymns 126 They raised full many a bede~house, but never a bastile.

† bead-master n. Obsolete a religious officer who attends to the poor, a deacon.

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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > deacon > [noun]

deaconc900

ministerc1300

Levite1393

diacre1523

gospellera1529

kirkmaster1573

bead-master1579

reliever1582

1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 295/1 The Deacons, that is to say, the Beade maisters, and such as see to the poore.

† bead-song n. Obsolete song of prayer.

ΚΠ

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 1450 Wiþþ fasstinng. & wiþþ bede sang.

beads-woman n. a woman who prays for a benefactor, an almswoman.

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the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > poor person > poor person in receipt of relief > woman

beads-woman?1465

pauperess1846

?1465 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 14 Your dayly bedewoman my huswif.

1502 Marg. Countess of Richmond in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. i. 23 I. 48 Your feythfull trewe bedwoman and humble modyr.

1536 in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. i. xxxv. 256 Your poor bedes women The whole convent of Styxwold.

1629 J. Shirley Gratefull Seruant iii. i My humblest service to his grace: I am his beads~woman.

1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) I. i. xxvii. 204/1 Ten poor Women called Bedes Women, and Six poor Clarks.

1864 C. M. Yonge Bk. Golden Deeds 194 Asking the Queen to make her a bedeswoman at Vienna.

C2.

(a)

bead-amber n.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > amber > [noun]

amber1365

electruma1398

lambera1400

karabe1545

electre1595

succin1596

ounce stone1601

succinum1608

bead-amber1611

sunstone1848

succinite1854

electron1882

burmite1893

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > mineral and fossil resins > [noun] > amber

amber1365

electruma1398

karabe1545

bead-amber1611

ambered1874

simetite1892

the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > hydrocarbon minerals > [noun] > resins > amber > types of

karabe1545

bead-amber1611

amber pellet1620

walchowite1849

rumanite1892

simetite1892

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Ambre de Paternostres, Bead-amber; the ordinarie yellow Amber.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §83 Bead-Amber, which is at first is a soft Substance.

bead-berry n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > berry > [noun] > other berries

hedge-berry1607

elderberry1625

ramble-berry1658

cloudberry1743

Indian pear1796

bluet1812

squawberry1829

pigface1830

wax-berry1835

quandong1836

strawberry guava1901

bead-berry1923

squash-berry1935

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adjective] > by size, shape, etc.

steepc1000

standing1340

glazenc1380

glassy1412

ungladlyc1450

sparklinga1500

goggle1540

pinking1566

whally1590

vailed1591

unweeping1598

dejected1600

unwet1601

glossed1602

haggard1605

saucer-like1612

saucer1618

glaring1622

uncast1629

startling1648

poppinga1696

upraised1707

glancy1733

glazed1735

almond1786

open-eyed1799

bald1807

glazing1808

lustreless1810

unfathomable1817

vague1820

soulless1824

beady1826

socketless1833

fishy1836

glazy1838

popped1849

agoggled1860

uprolled1864

unfaceted1893

shoe-button1895

poppy1899

googly1901

slitty1908

bead-berry1923

1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (London ed.) 107 He squatted and looked at me. With sticking-out, bead-berry eyes.

bead-maker n.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of other articles > [noun] > of other specific finished articles

anchorsmith1296

paliser1315

sheather1379

buckler-maker1415

barrow-maker1468

chess-maker1481

belt maker1483

leg-makera1500

reel-makera1500

card maker1511

lattice-maker1550

pale cleaver1578

bead-maker1580

boss-maker1580

balloonier1598

bilbo-smith1632

block-makera1687

pen-makera1703

pipe-maker1766

platemaker1772

stickman1786

safe maker?1789

matchmaker1833

chipmaker1836

labelmaker1844

bandagist1859

hurdler1874

moon cutter1883

tie-maker1901

1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Vn paternostrier, a beades maker.

1723 London Gaz. No. 6172/7 William Dossett..Beadmaker.

bead-note n.

ΚΠ

1938 W. de la Mare Memory & Other Poems 60 Bead-note of bird where earth and elfland meet.

(b)

bead-potato n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > potato > types of

baker1651

Irish potato1664

sprout1771

London lady1780

ox-noble1794

pink-eye1795

kidney1796

Suriname1796

round1800

yam potato1801

bluenose1803

yam1805

bead-potato1808

Murphy1811

lumper1840

blue1845

salmon1845

merino1846

regent1846

pink1850

redskin potato1851

fluke1868

snowflake1882

magnum1889

ware1894

snowdrop1900

King Edward1902

Majestic1917

red1926

fingerling1930

Pentland1959

chipper1961

Maris Peer1963

Maris Piper1963

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > potato > types of potato

potato1629

Rough Red1771

sprout1771

London lady1780

russet1780

ox-noble1794

pink-eye1795

kidney1796

Suriname1796

silver-skin1797

yam potato1801

bluenose1803

yam1805

bead-potato1808

lumper1840

blue1845

merino1846

regent1846

pink1850

redskin potato1851

fluke1868

mangel-wurzel potato1875

snowflake1882

snowdrop1900

pomato1905

Idaho1911

Majestic1917

red1926

Pentland1959

1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon Concl. 455 To produce languid shoots and a number of small bead potatoes of no value.

bead-string n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > jewellery of specific shape or form > [noun] > bead(s) > thread or string for

string1612

bead-string1801

strand1825

1801 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 12 583 The most precious jewel in the long bead-string of his pedigree.

a1872 F. D. Maurice Friendship Bks. ii. 44 Not even a beadstring to hang the different meanings upon.

bead-work n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > bead > decoration with

bead-work1751

beading1881

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > other mouldings

bowtell1376

crownwork1594

protypum1601

chaplet1623

bandeleta1645

bedding-moulding1664

quadra1664

surbase1678

platband1696

bed-moulding1703

eyebrow1703

square1703

gorge1706

nerve1728

heel1734

quirk-moulding1776

star1781

bead1799

rope moulding1813

zigzag1814

chevron-moulding1815

nebule1823

billet1835

dancette1838

pellet moulding1838

vignette moulding1842

bird's beak moulding1845

beak-head ornament1848

beak-head1849

billet moulding1851

beading1858

bead-work1881

Venetian dentil1892

chevron-work-

1751 P. Longueville Hermit (new ed.) iii. 261 He..makes 24 of those Plates, which he weaves together, making a flat Piece of Beed-work.

1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxvi. 85 Indian curiosities..such as bead-work.

1881 Mechanic §1597 The mouldings or any bead-work should be painted.

1919 R. Fry in Athenæum 27 June 529/2 As we look at Leech's drawings, or sit in a bead-work chair.

(c)

bead-bonny adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [adjective] > beautiful in specific way

gallant-springing1597

bead-bonny1881

1881 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 89 The beadbonny ash that sits over the burn.

bead-brown adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > other browns

wainscot1577

earth-coloured1722

honey-brown1774

snuff-coloured1787

snuffy1789

moorit1795

iron brown1798

umber1802

umbery1850

sienna-brown1853

oily-brown1861

seal-brown1881

tabac1881

glandaceous1885

cigar-brown1895

bead-brown1912

cocoa1942

toffee-brown1961

toffee1962

sludgy1975

1912 W. de la Mare Listeners 14 Her small bead-brown eyes.

bead-dark adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [adjective] > relating to tone > dark

wana1000

swartOE

darkOE

under-dark1382

sad1415

swartish1483

sable?a1513

dark-coloured?1523

swarth?1527

fuskish1563

swarty1572

saturnine1581

sable-suiteda1592

sable visaged1608

gloomy1632

sable-vested1667

fuscous1671

umbratile1678

sable-hooded1770

gangrenous1794

burnt1897

bead-dark1937

1937 W. de la Mare This Year, Next Year Low head outstretched, and bead-dark eyes.

bead-eyed adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adjective] > by size, shape, etc. > having

goggle-eyedc1384

well-eyed1483

pink-eyed1519

hollow-eyeda1529

small-eyed1555

great-eyed1558

bird-eyed1564

out-eyed1570

large-eyed1575

full-eyed1581

bright-eyed1590

wall-eyed1590

beetle-eyed1594

fire-eyed?1594

young-eyed1600

open-eyed1601

soft-eyed1606

narrow-eyed1607

broad-eyed?1611

saucer-eyed1612

ox-eyed1621

pig-eyed1655

glare-eyed1683

pit-eyed1696

dove-eyed1717

laughing-eyed1784

almond1786

wide-eyed1789

moon-eyed1790

big-eyed1792

gooseberry-eyed1796

red-eyed1800

unsealed1800

screw-eyed1810

starry-eyed1818

pinkie-eyed1824

pop-eyed1830

bead-eyed1835

fishy-eyed1836

almond-eyed1849

boopic1854

sharp-set1865

bug-eyed1872

beady-eyed1873

bias-eyed1877

blank-eyed1881

gape-eyed1889

glass-eyed1889

stone-eyed1890

pie-eyed1900

slitty-eyed1908

steely-eyed1964

megalopic1985

1835 F. A. Butler Jrnl. II. 179 A fat, good tempered, rosy, bead-eyed, wet-haired, shining-faced looking man accosted me.

bead-like adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [adjective] > spherical or globular > very small sphere or pellet

pisiform1796

pilular1802

shotty1860

bead-like1876

1876 H. N. Humphreys Coin Coll. Man. xxvi. 400 The minor bead-like decorations, borders of pearls, &c.

b. Also bead-roll n.

bead-frame n. a frame containing beads strung upon wires used for teaching numeration, an abacus.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > mathematical instruments > [noun] > arithmetical instrument > abacus

abacus1686

suan-pan1736

bead-frame1858

soroban1891

counting-frame1920

1858 Curwen Singing for Sch. Introd. 20 Till the pupil..is able to perform some of its [arithmetic] simpler operations by the help of the Bead-Frame or the Box of various Objects.

bead lightning n. (see quot. 1899); cf. beaded lightning n. at beaded adj. Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > lightning > bead or forked lightning

chain lightning1825

beaded lightning1889

bead lightning1899

streak lightning1916

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > thunder and lightning > [noun] > lightning > specific types

fireball1611

forked lightning1611

summer lightning1679

ball of fire1684

thunder-ball1686

sheet lightning1794

wildfirea1831

heat-lightning1834

globular lightning1843

ribbon lightning1888

beaded lightning1889

bead lightning1899

1899 E. Thomson in Science 25 Aug. 244/2 Bead lightning..is a very beautiful luminous appearance, like a string of beads hung in a cloud.

bead-plane n. a carpenter's plane for running a bead on moulding.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > plane > [noun] > other planes

rabat1440

long plane1665

strike-block1678

mitre plane1688

straight block1812

ice plane1823

side fillister1841

upright1842

scraping-plane1846

sun plane1846

beading plane1858

bead-plane1858

fluting-plane1864

panel plane1873

badger plane1874

shooting-plane1875

whisk1875

block planea1884

scraper-plane1895

chariot plane1909

shoulder plane1935

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Bead-plane, a moulding plane of semicylindrical contour.

bead-plant n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > berry-bush or -tree > [noun] > other berry-bushes and their fruit

redcurrant1633

dogberry1688

amelanchier1693

cassioberry1753

crownberry1798

crowberry1866

Portugal crakeberry1866

bead-plant1878

osoberry1884

pearl berry1884

1878 R. Thompson Gardener's Assistant 709/2 Nertera scapanioides..Popularly known as the bead plant, owing to the profusion of golden berries it produces.

bead-proof adj. (of alcoholic spirits) such that a crown of bubbles (see 4b) formed by shaking will stand for some time after on the surface (a fallacious test of strength); (later also) of a certain proof, as tested by Wilson's or Lovis's Beads (see 6).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > types or qualities of intoxicating liquor > [adjective] > strong

strongeOE

stalec1300

mainc1400

nappyc1460

starkc1485

nase?1536

huff-cap1599

nippitatum1600

intoxicating1604

inebriating1610

distempering1613–18

inebriative1615

toxing1635

hogen mogen1653

napping1654

humming1675

hard1700

inebriousa1704

ebrietating1711

bead-proof1753

steeve1801

high-proof1810

pithy1812

stiff1813

inebriant1828

reverent1837

a little more north1864

ebriating1872

rorty1950

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Bead-proof, a term used by our distillers.

bead rim n. a thickened, rounded rim (cf. 5c); also attributive.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] > rim

brink1382

berda1425

edgea1450

lip1592

beaded1917

bead rim1936

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > [noun] > that which forms the edge or border > thickened and rounded

beaded1917

bead rim1936

bead1962

1936 Antiquaries Jrnl. 16 270 The bead rim and the countersunk handle.

1943 R. E. M. Wheeler Maiden Castle iii. 204 The rolled or ‘bead’ rim, which is predominantly characteristic of the ‘Wessex hill-fort B’ pottery, is in origin a device, not of the potter, but of the metal-worker, who thus gave rigidity to the lip of a vessel of thin metal.

bead-rimmed adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [adjective] > having specific rim

bead-rimmed1940

1940 V. G. Childe Prehist. Communities Brit. Isles xiii. 251 The ceramic industry was industrialized, specialist potters turning out en masse bead-rimmed vases of Continental pattern.

bead screen n. beaded screen (see beaded adj. 1d).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > projection > [noun] > screen

scrim1891

cinema screen1912

movie screen1912

widescreen1920

silver screen1924

bead screen1934

screen1952

split screen1953

pinscreen1959

1934 Amateur Cine World May 10/1 The most satisfactory type of screen so far evolved..is that known as the glass, bead or crystal.

1938 G. H. Sewell Amateur Film-making vi. 60 The silver and bead screens are an attempt to secure the utmost reflection of light from the projector.

bead-sedge n. the Bur-reed ( Sparganium ramosum).

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > reed or the reed plant > reed-like plants

bead-sedge1562

knop-sedge1562

reed-grass1578

bur-reed1597

reed bent grass1781

reed bent1859

1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 143^v It maye be called bede sedge or knop sedge.

1863 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants 17 Bede-sedge, from its round bead-like burs..Sparganium ramosum.

bead-snake n. a small American snake ( Elaps fulvus).

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Elapidae or Najidae > member of genus Elaps

stag-snake1668

bead-snake1737

coral-snake1758

coral-serpent1774

garter-snake1775

nachtslang1821

death adder1833

coral1852

1737 Dr. Mortimer in Philos. Trans. 1735–6 (Royal Soc.) 39 258 The Bead-Snake..commonly found under Ground.

1867 J. G. Wood Pop. Nat. Hist. iii. 52 One of the brightest and loveliest of Serpents is the Bead Snake of North America.

bead-stone n. (a) a stone used as a bead, or of which beads are made; (b) Zoology (see quot. 1896).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > bead

beadc1400

bugle1573

bead-stone1677

bugle bead1713

poppit1955

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > jewellery of specific shape or form > [noun] > bead(s)

graina1350

juniper-beads1486

beadc1500

adder-stone1587

bead-stone1677

adder-bead1694

wampumpeag1705

wampum1753

strand1825

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > division Pelmatozoa > class Crinoidea > fossil or encrinite > fragments or joints of

St. Cuthbert's beads1697

fairy beads1767

basket-stones1851

fairy cheeses1869

bead-stone1896

1677 London Gaz. No. 1202/4 Three broad Chains set with Bead Stones.

1851 D. Wilson Archæol. & Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. iv. vi. 564 Bone draughtsmen or bead-stones of the tumuli.

1896 Trans. Victoria Inst. XXVIII. 206 Bead-stone is also called St. Cuthbert's beads, Fairy beads..and St. Boniface's money. They are the ring-like transverse sections of the so-called Vertical Column of stalked Echinoderms.

bead-tree n. the azedarac n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > [noun] > azedarac

white cedar1654

bead-tree1668

azedarac1753

Melia1753

pride of China1778

pride of India1803

margosa1813

neema1819

China-tree1819

sandal-tree1864

holy tree1866

China-berry1890

1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. iv. §7. 115 Clove Tree, Bede Tree.

1852 T. Ross tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. Amer. II. xvii. 136 Hedges of bead-trees.

bead-work n. (a) ornamental work with beads; also attributive; so bead-worked adj.; (b) bead moulding ( 5).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [adjective] > ornamented with beads

beaded1587

bugle1611

bugled1730

beady1892

bead-worked1909

1909 Daily Chron. 18 Nov. 4/5 Painted and bead-worked lampshades.

1920 J. Galsworthy In Chancery i. xii A gilt chair with a bead-worked seat.

Draft additions September 2013

bead curtain n. a hanging screen formed of a series of long, vertical strands of threaded beads, usually covering a doorway or entrance.

ΚΠ

1887 Essex Standard 16 Apr. 5/7 The three doorways..hung with very handsome bead-curtains.

1938 D. Kincaid Brit. Social Life in India ix. 250 They went slowly, between bead curtains held apart by servants, into the dining-room.

2013 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 17 Jan. Separated from the foyer by a stainless-steel bead curtain is a living room with 19-foot-ceilings.

bead wire n. any of the wires which make up the bead of a pneumatic tyre; the bead itself.

ΚΠ

1922 H. C. Pearson Pneumatic Tires v. 83 A machine has been developed that should be installed for insulating the bead wire.

1986 Cycletouring Jan. 33/2 Drop us a line describing which part of the tyre casing split (just above the bead wire seems a favourite place).

1998 U.S. Patent 5,769,982 23 June The radial carcass reinforcements of such tires generally comprise several plies of textile cords which are anchored in each bead to at least one bead wire and generally a single bead wire.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	bead
释义	beadn. Brit. /biːd/, U.S. /bid/ Forms: Old English–Middle English bed, Middle English beode, Middle English–1600s, and (archaically) 1800s bede, Middle English bed, beed, Middle English–1500s bedde, beid, 1500s–1600s beade, Middle English– bead. Etymology: Middle English bede , plural bedes , beden , perhaps representing an Old English bedu , bed (feminine) = Old Frisian bede , Old Saxon beda , Middle Dutch and Dutch bede , Old High German beta , Middle High German bete , modern German bitte , Gothic bida (strong feminine), < Gothic bidjan , in Old English biddan to pray: see bid v.¹ But an Old English bedu is doubtful, and bed occurs only in combination (bed-hús, etc.), the regular Old English word being gebed (neuter), in Middle English ibed, ? ibede, plural ibeoden, from which bede may have arisen by aphesis in early Middle English The name was transferred from ‘prayer’ to the small globular bodies used for ‘telling beads,’ i.e. counting prayers said, from which the other senses naturally followed. I. Prayer, and connected senses. †1. a. Prayer; plural prayers, devotions. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > prayer > [noun] > prayers beadc885 devotional1659 devotion- c885 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. i. vii. (Bosw.) Ðæt he sceolde ða bedu anescian. c1200 Trin. Col. Hom. 193 Þe þridde is bede. c1200 Trin. Col. Hom. 163 On salmes, and on songes, and on holde bedes. c1200 Trin. Col. Hom. 201 Alle holie beden ben..biheue. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 36 Beon ibeoden. c1305 St. Lucy 37 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 102 Þer hi leye in hire bedes. 1330 R. Mannyng Chron. 202 Better is holy bede. c1330 King of Tars 643 With beodes and with preyere. c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 15 Ȝif he be bese in his bedus. c1430 Hymns Virg. (1867) 6 To þee y make my beed. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxiii. f. cxxxiii^v I hoped to haue ben saued by your Bedes & prayers. 1554 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 92 Went unto the crosse, & stode there alle the [sermon] tyme, & whan he came unto the beddes they turnyd unto the precher & knelyd downe. b. In later usage (after sense 2 became the popular one) there was almost always a reference direct or indirect to the use of the rosary. ΚΠ ?a1550 Pore helpe 369 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. III. 265 Take you to your beades; All men and women..That useth so to praye. ?1589 T. Nashe Almond for Parrat sig. 14^v [He] would haue run a false gallop ouer his beades with anie man in England. 1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. F5^v Be briefe in praying: Few Beads are best, when once we goe a Maying. 1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxix. 105 I begun..to say the Lord's Prayer. None of your Beads to me, Pamela, said he, thou art a perfect Nun. c. to bid a bead: to offer a prayer; hence beads bidding, the saying of prayers. Also to say one's beads. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > prayer > pray [verb (intransitive)] i-bid971 bidc1175 ure?c1225 prayc1300 to bid a beada1325 to say one's beadsa1325 tellc1450 to tell or count one's beads1641 society > faith > worship > prayer > [noun] > action of or offering of bidding of prayersc1175 orison?c1250 bidding1297 prayerc1300 beads biddinga1325 sacrificec1595 presentation1597 pray1654 davening1947 a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2981 Moyses bad is bede. c1330 Assump. Virg. 876 To ihesu þei bede a bede. c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. (1871) II. 420 How þei shulen bidde her bedis. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 225 He travailled besiliche in bedes byddynge. 1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Idolatry iii, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 236 For the which they pray in their beads bidding. 1597 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. f. 11 The beades that we will bid shall be sweet kisses. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia (at cited word) To say our Bedes, is to say our prayers.] 1681 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Reformation: 2nd Pt. 55 All the people said their beads in a general silence. 1764 T. Gray Let. 19 Nov. in Corr. (1971) II. 852 Bidding his beads for the souls of his benefactors. 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise I. i. 152 To fetch the priest..To bury her and say her bede. 2. a. A small perforated ball or other body, a series of which (formerly called ‘a pair of beads’) threaded upon a string, forms the rosary or paternoster, used for keeping count of the number of prayers said. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > implement (general) > rosary > [noun] > bead of bead1377 prayer bead1630 paddhereen1689 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xv. 119 A peyre bedes in her hande And a boke vnder hire arme. 1446 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 124 A pare of bedes of corall with gaudes of gete. 1483 Cath. Angl. 24/1 A bede, precula. 1533 T. More Answere Poysened Bk. iv. xii. f. ccxxxi^v Away with our ladys psalter, and cast the bedys in y^e fyre. c1550 Auentur on Weddinsd. (Bannatyne MS.) Ane pair of beids about hir throt. 1570 Act 13 Eliz. ii. §7 Crosses, Pictures, Beads and such like superstitious Things. 1653 J. Collinges Responsoria ad Erratica Piscatoris sig. A2 I no where read, That thy Apostles ever us'd a Bead. 1697 Countess D'Aunoy's Trav. (1706) 142 She presented me with a pair of Beads of Paulo d'Aguila, a curious sort of wood. 1743 A. Pope Ess. Man (new ed.) ii. 280 Beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age. b. to tell or count one's beads: to say one's prayers. to pray without one's beads: to be ‘out of one's reckoning’. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > prayer > pray [verb (intransitive)] i-bid971 bidc1175 ure?c1225 prayc1300 to bid a beada1325 to say one's beadsa1325 tellc1450 to tell or count one's beads1641 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > mistake [phrase] to miss the cushiona1529 to get, have, or take the (or a) wrong (or right) sow by the ear1546 to pray without one's beads1641 to have the wrong end of the stick?1793 to bark up the wrong tree1832 the boot (is) on the wrong leg or foot1834 to have another think coming1896 you have another guess coming1935 to be off the beam1941 blow1943 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper iii. 188 Telling the panes of glasse, as fast as a Papist doth his Beads. 1656 F. Osborne Disc. Machiavell in Polit. Reflect. Govt. Turks 129 In which he prayed without his Beads, being so farre out [printed ont], in the account, as that, [etc.]. 1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy II. xvii. 123 Cross himself;—tell his beads;—be a good Catholick. 1792 J. Barlow Conspiracy of Kings 78 He counts his beads, and spends his holy zeal. 1816 S. T. Coleridge Christabel ii. 28 The sacristan..Five and forty beads must tell. 1878 B. Taylor Prince Deukalion ii. i. 53 Five hundred have I told upon these beads. 1883 J. Gilmour Among Mongols xvii. 205 Counting beads and making pilgrimages. II. Extensions of sense 2. 3. a. A small perforated body, spherical or otherwise, of glass, amber, metal, wood, etc., used as an ornament, either strung in a series to form a necklace, bracelet, etc., or sewn upon various fabrics. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > bead beadc1400 bugle1573 bead-stone1677 bugle bead1713 poppit1955 c1400 Destr. Troy xv. 7044 Garmentes full gay..Bright beidis & Brasse broght þai with-all. 1589 Voy. W. Towrson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 108 About their neckes great beades of glasse of diuerse colours. 1647 A. Cowley Bargain in Mistress ii The foolish Indian that sells His precious Gold for Beads and Bells. 1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. xxii. 128 Their old way of reckoning..is with beads on wires, which they work without pen and ink. 1836 F. Marryat Japhet I. xviii. 226 A long chain of round coral and gold beads. figurative.1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. ii. 331 You minimus..You bead, you acorne. View more context for this quotation1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 97 Quincy's [life] was strung with seventy active years, each one a rounded bead of usefulness and service. b. (The plural is commonly used in sense of a string of beads for the neck; formerly the singular seems to have been occasionally so used.) ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > jewellery of specific shape or form > [noun] > bead(s) graina1350 juniper-beads1486 beadc1500 adder-stone1587 bead-stone1677 adder-bead1694 wampumpeag1705 wampum1753 strand1825 society > faith > worship > prayer > [noun] > prayers > with use of rosary beada1616 society > faith > worship > prayer > kinds of prayer > [noun] > using the rosary > collect beada1616 c1500 Mayd Emlyn in Anc. Poet. Tracts (1842) 21 And sayth that she lackes Many prety knackes, As bedes and gyrdels gaye. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iv. iii. 58 With Amber Bracelets, Beades, and all this knau'ry. View more context for this quotation 1650 H. Vaughan Silex Scintillans 57 Ther's one Sun more strung on my Bead of days. 1887 N.E.D. at Bead Mod. Do they wear beads? She cannot find her beads. 4. In various transferred senses applied to things having some of the characteristics of 3. a. A bead-like drop of liquid or of molten metal. spec. of sweat, esp. on the face. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > [noun] > a quantity of > small > globular dropc825 tearOE pearlc1425 dripc1440 bead1598 dropleta1616 blob1725 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. iv. 58 Beads [1623 beds] of sweat haue stood vpon thy brow. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iii. i. 287 Seeing those Beads of sorrow stand in thine. View more context for this quotation 1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 19 My hearts deare treasure Drops bloud (the onely beads) my words to measure. 1854 J. Scoffern in Orr's Circle Sci., Chem. Chem. 507 The bead of impure silver is seen to emit fumes. 1888 A. C. Gunter Mr. Potter v [He] wipes the great beads of exhausted toil from his forehead. 1888 A. C. Gunter Mr. Potter v The beads of perspiration. b. A bubble of foam; spec. a bubble in spirits, sparkling wines, etc.; the foam or head upon certain beverages. Cf. bead-proof adj. at Compounds 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > types or qualities of intoxicating liquor > [noun] > sparkling quality > bubble intoxication1674 bead1753 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Bead is also used for a little, round, white froth formed on the surface of brandy, or spirit of wine, upon shaking the glass. 1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 181 An eye which outsparkles The beads of the wine. 1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies vii. 255 Swimming about among the foam-beads below. 1883 Harper's Mag. Nov. 894/2 There is..a finer bead on this wine of mirth. c. A clear nacreous spot on the surface of shells. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > bodies or parts > [noun] > hard outer covering > clear, nacreous spot on bead1842 1842 Johnston in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 x. 32 The clear spots or beads of the transverse lines [on a shell] are much larger. d. The small metal knob which forms the front sight of a gun; esp. in the phrase (of U.S. origin) to draw a bead upon: to take aim at. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > direct [verb (transitive)] > aim at mete1598 rove1598 levy1618 mean1633 to cover (with a gun, pistol, etc.)1693 to draw a bead upon1831 target1837 sight1871 bead1888 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > sight > types of dispart1578 telescopic sight1674 plain sight1686 aim-frontlet1745 hausse1787 foresight1806 gloaming sight1817 night-sight1822 bead1831 leaf1832 backsight1847 globe sight1847 pendulum hausse1850 hindsight1851 tangent scale1859 tangent1861 tangent backsight1862 training pendulum1862 training level1863 peep sight1866 dispart-sight1867 notch sight1867 buck-horn1877 orthoptic1881 aperturea1884 pinball-sighta1884 dispart patch1884 sight bar1884 flap-sight1887 barley-corn1896 ring sight1901 riflescope1902 spotting scope1904 tangent sight1908 Aldis sight1918 wind-sight1923 scope sight1934 gyro-sight1942 1831 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. I. 294 He raised his piece until the bead (that being the name given by the Kentuckians to the sight) of the barrel was brought to a line with the spot he intended to hit. 1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians I. x. 77 I made several attempts to get near enough to ‘draw a bead’ upon one of them. 1844 F. Marryat Settlers in Canada II. 206 ‘Now, John,’ said Malachi; ‘get your bead well on him.’ 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 391 The front sight is that known as the bead-sight, which consists of a small steel needle, with a little head upon it like the head of an ordinary pin, enclosed in a steel tube. In aiming with this sight, the eye is directed..to the bead in the tube. 1919 Chambers's Jrnl. June 399/1 I'd got a lovely bead on her with one of my own torpedoes. 1929 G. Mitchell Myst. Butcher's Shop xii. 132 You've got a bead on your man all right. e. A string of sponges; see quot. 1885. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Parazoa > phylum Porifera > [noun] > member of > string of sponges bead1885 1885 A. Brassey In Trades 339 The sponges are strung upon small palmetto strips, three or four to a strip, which is called a ‘bead.’ 5. Categories » a. Architecture. A small globular ornament, commonly applied in a row like a string of beads. Also in the names of various ornamental designs, as bead and butt, bead flush, bead reel, etc. b. A narrow moulding having a semicircular section. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > decoration specifically in relief > [noun] > mouldings and grooves swage1374 ogee1591 mouldure1628 moulding1679 swaging1688 cock bead1778 cock beading1788 bead1799 cable-moulding1859 pearling1883 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > other mouldings bowtell1376 crownwork1594 protypum1601 chaplet1623 bandeleta1645 bedding-moulding1664 quadra1664 surbase1678 platband1696 bed-moulding1703 eyebrow1703 square1703 gorge1706 nerve1728 heel1734 quirk-moulding1776 star1781 bead1799 rope moulding1813 zigzag1814 chevron-moulding1815 nebule1823 billet1835 dancette1838 pellet moulding1838 vignette moulding1842 bird's beak moulding1845 beak-head ornament1848 beak-head1849 billet moulding1851 beading1858 bead-work1881 Venetian dentil1892 chevron-work- 1799 , etc. Bead and flush [see flush adj.¹ 5b]. 1802 Gentleman's Mag. 72 ii. 1118 Bead, a globular ornament peculiar to Saxon architecture, carved in the mouldings. 1803 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 93 171 On the edges..a small regular raised bead or moulding was formed. 1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. xxi. 256 I think bead a bad word for a continuous moulding. 1861 J. H. Parker Introd. Study Gothic Archit. (ed. 2) Gloss. 242 Bead,..an ornament resembling a row of beads. 1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding xi. 233 Beads of india-rubber are fitted in the rabbets of the frame. 1904 P. Macquoid Hist. Eng. Furnit. I. vii. 191 The sides are inlaid with the bead and spindle, or husk design so popular at this time. 1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Bead and butt, bead and reel. 1937 W. Rose Village Carpenter iv. 42 The outside doors to the ordinary house were made to the still well-known orders of ‘bead and butt’ or ‘bead and flush’. 1955 R. Fastnedge Eng. Furnit. Styles 280 Bead and reel, a decorative border found in the form of inlay in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. c. Used of any thickened, rounded edge (cf. bead rim n. at Compounds 2b). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > [noun] > that which forms the edge or border > thickened and rounded beaded1917 bead rim1936 bead1962 1962 Gloss. Terms Glass Ind. (B.S.I.) 27 Bead, an enlarged, rounded edge of a glass article, or any raised section extending around the article. 6. beads of St. Elline: certain round roots brought out of Florida (Bullokar 1616). St. Martin's beads: (the sanctuary of St. Martin's-le-Grand, London, was a noted resort of makers of sham jewellery. F. Cohen. in Archæol. XVIII. 55, quotes an ordinance of the Star Chamber in 36 Hen. VI. for the regulation of that sanctuary, by which it is declared that ‘no workers of counterfeit cheynes, beades, broaches, owches, rings, cups, and spoons silvered, should be suffered therein.’) Baily's beads: a phenomenon observed in total eclipses of the sun; see quotations. Wilson's or Lovis's beads: a series of globular bodies of different densities, formerly used to determine the specific gravity of a spirit into which they were thrown one by one. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > [noun] > imitation doublet1449 St. Martin's beads1616 triplet1877 snide1885 junk1904 costume jewellery1907 slum1914 junk jewellery1920 the world > the universe > sun > sunlight > [noun] > eclipse annular eclipse1728 Baily's beads1861 shadow-band1891 1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Beades of Saint Elline, certaine round roots brought out of Florida, which being drie are very hard, on the outside blacke, and inwardly white: of a sweet smel and good taste. 1678 S. Butler Ladies Answer to Knight in Hudibras: Third Pt. 266 Those False S. Martins beads. 1861 G. F. Chambers Handbk. Descr. Astron. ii. ii. 95 When the disc of the Moon advancing over that of the Sun has reduced the latter to a thin crescent, it is usually noticed that immediately before the beginning and after the end of complete obscuration, the crescent appears as a band of brilliant points, separated by dark spaces so as to give it the appearance of a string of beads..These phenomena are generally known as Baily's beads, having received their name from the late Mr. Francis Baily, who was the first to describe them in detail... The earliest account of the..beads is contained in Halley's Memoir on the total eclipse of 1715. 1874 S. Johnson Eclipses 66 An eclipse of the sun a.d. 1836, May 15..Famous for what is known as ‘Baily's beads’ noticed by Mr. Baily, at Jedburgh, in Roxburghshire. 1878 S. Newcomb Pop. Astron. iii. iii. 314 ‘Baily's beads’ ..are caused by the sun shining through the depressions between the lunar mountains. Compounds C1. attributive and in other combinations (mostly archaic, and, when used by modern writers, often spelt bede). Also bead-roll n., beadsman n. bead-child n. a child that prays for the welfare of a benefactor or relative. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > prayer > [noun] > one who performs > child praying for benefactor or relative bead-child?1499 ?1499 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 140 Your good son & beadchild, German Pole. bead-folk n. people (often pensioners) who pray for a benefactor. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > poor person > poor person in receipt of relief > collectively almsfolk1460 bead-folk?1465 pauperage1831 pauperism1857 ?1465 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 15 Others your well willers, servants, and bed folkes. 1849 D. Rock Church of our Fathers III. viii. 134 To live and do as bead-folks should. bead-house n. (northern dialect beadus Welsh Bettws), originally a house of prayer, hence an alms-house, the inmates of which were to pray for the soul of the founder. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > oratory > [noun] bead-housec1160 oratorya1382 oratourc1400 oraculum1565 proseucha1602 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > institutional homes > [noun] > for the poor, infirm, etc. bead-housec1160 spittle?c1225 spittle-housec1315 maison dieu1354 almshouse1395 hospital14.. God's house1425 hospitality1571 townhouse1597 guest house1600 gifts1651 college1694 asylum1776 hospice1818 group home1873 pogey1891 c1160 Hatton Gosp. Matt. xxi. 13 Min hus ys bed-hus [Ags. G. gebed-hus]. 1485 in J. T. Fowler Acts Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1875) 277 The bedehouse beside the Mawdelayns. 1774 T. West Antiq. Furness (1805) 180 Lodgyns and bed-howses for x poor men. 1864 J. C. Atkinson Whitby Gloss. Beadus or Beadhouse, an almshouse. 1866 J. M. Neale Sequences & Hymns 126 They raised full many a bede~house, but never a bastile. † bead-master n. Obsolete a religious officer who attends to the poor, a deacon. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > deacon > [noun] deaconc900 ministerc1300 Levite1393 diacre1523 gospellera1529 kirkmaster1573 bead-master1579 reliever1582 1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 295/1 The Deacons, that is to say, the Beade maisters, and such as see to the poore. † bead-song n. Obsolete song of prayer. ΚΠ c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 1450 Wiþþ fasstinng. & wiþþ bede sang. beads-woman n. a woman who prays for a benefactor, an almswoman. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > poor person > poor person in receipt of relief > woman beads-woman?1465 pauperess1846 ?1465 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 14 Your dayly bedewoman my huswif. 1502 Marg. Countess of Richmond in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. i. 23 I. 48 Your feythfull trewe bedwoman and humble modyr. 1536 in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. i. xxxv. 256 Your poor bedes women The whole convent of Styxwold. 1629 J. Shirley Gratefull Seruant iii. i My humblest service to his grace: I am his beads~woman. 1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) I. i. xxvii. 204/1 Ten poor Women called Bedes Women, and Six poor Clarks. 1864 C. M. Yonge Bk. Golden Deeds 194 Asking the Queen to make her a bedeswoman at Vienna. C2. a. (a) bead-amber n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > amber > [noun] amber1365 electruma1398 lambera1400 karabe1545 electre1595 succin1596 ounce stone1601 succinum1608 bead-amber1611 sunstone1848 succinite1854 electron1882 burmite1893 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > mineral and fossil resins > [noun] > amber amber1365 electruma1398 karabe1545 bead-amber1611 ambered1874 simetite1892 the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > hydrocarbon minerals > [noun] > resins > amber > types of karabe1545 bead-amber1611 amber pellet1620 walchowite1849 rumanite1892 simetite1892 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Ambre de Paternostres, Bead-amber; the ordinarie yellow Amber. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §83 Bead-Amber, which is at first is a soft Substance. bead-berry n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > berry > [noun] > other berries hedge-berry1607 elderberry1625 ramble-berry1658 cloudberry1743 Indian pear1796 bluet1812 squawberry1829 pigface1830 wax-berry1835 quandong1836 strawberry guava1901 bead-berry1923 squash-berry1935 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adjective] > by size, shape, etc. steepc1000 standing1340 glazenc1380 glassy1412 ungladlyc1450 sparklinga1500 goggle1540 pinking1566 whally1590 vailed1591 unweeping1598 dejected1600 unwet1601 glossed1602 haggard1605 saucer-like1612 saucer1618 glaring1622 uncast1629 startling1648 poppinga1696 upraised1707 glancy1733 glazed1735 almond1786 open-eyed1799 bald1807 glazing1808 lustreless1810 unfathomable1817 vague1820 soulless1824 beady1826 socketless1833 fishy1836 glazy1838 popped1849 agoggled1860 uprolled1864 unfaceted1893 shoe-button1895 poppy1899 googly1901 slitty1908 bead-berry1923 1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (London ed.) 107 He squatted and looked at me. With sticking-out, bead-berry eyes. bead-maker n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of other articles > [noun] > of other specific finished articles anchorsmith1296 paliser1315 sheather1379 buckler-maker1415 barrow-maker1468 chess-maker1481 belt maker1483 leg-makera1500 reel-makera1500 card maker1511 lattice-maker1550 pale cleaver1578 bead-maker1580 boss-maker1580 balloonier1598 bilbo-smith1632 block-makera1687 pen-makera1703 pipe-maker1766 platemaker1772 stickman1786 safe maker?1789 matchmaker1833 chipmaker1836 labelmaker1844 bandagist1859 hurdler1874 moon cutter1883 tie-maker1901 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Vn paternostrier, a beades maker. 1723 London Gaz. No. 6172/7 William Dossett..Beadmaker. bead-note n. ΚΠ 1938 W. de la Mare Memory & Other Poems 60 Bead-note of bird where earth and elfland meet. (b) bead-potato n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > potato > types of baker1651 Irish potato1664 sprout1771 London lady1780 ox-noble1794 pink-eye1795 kidney1796 Suriname1796 round1800 yam potato1801 bluenose1803 yam1805 bead-potato1808 Murphy1811 lumper1840 blue1845 salmon1845 merino1846 regent1846 pink1850 redskin potato1851 fluke1868 snowflake1882 magnum1889 ware1894 snowdrop1900 King Edward1902 Majestic1917 red1926 fingerling1930 Pentland1959 chipper1961 Maris Peer1963 Maris Piper1963 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > potato > types of potato potato1629 Rough Red1771 sprout1771 London lady1780 russet1780 ox-noble1794 pink-eye1795 kidney1796 Suriname1796 silver-skin1797 yam potato1801 bluenose1803 yam1805 bead-potato1808 lumper1840 blue1845 merino1846 regent1846 pink1850 redskin potato1851 fluke1868 mangel-wurzel potato1875 snowflake1882 snowdrop1900 pomato1905 Idaho1911 Majestic1917 red1926 Pentland1959 1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon Concl. 455 To produce languid shoots and a number of small bead potatoes of no value. bead-string n. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > jewellery of specific shape or form > [noun] > bead(s) > thread or string for string1612 bead-string1801 strand1825 1801 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 12 583 The most precious jewel in the long bead-string of his pedigree. a1872 F. D. Maurice Friendship Bks. ii. 44 Not even a beadstring to hang the different meanings upon. bead-work n. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > bead > decoration with bead-work1751 beading1881 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > other mouldings bowtell1376 crownwork1594 protypum1601 chaplet1623 bandeleta1645 bedding-moulding1664 quadra1664 surbase1678 platband1696 bed-moulding1703 eyebrow1703 square1703 gorge1706 nerve1728 heel1734 quirk-moulding1776 star1781 bead1799 rope moulding1813 zigzag1814 chevron-moulding1815 nebule1823 billet1835 dancette1838 pellet moulding1838 vignette moulding1842 bird's beak moulding1845 beak-head ornament1848 beak-head1849 billet moulding1851 beading1858 bead-work1881 Venetian dentil1892 chevron-work- 1751 P. Longueville Hermit (new ed.) iii. 261 He..makes 24 of those Plates, which he weaves together, making a flat Piece of Beed-work. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxvi. 85 Indian curiosities..such as bead-work. 1881 Mechanic §1597 The mouldings or any bead-work should be painted. 1919 R. Fry in Athenæum 27 June 529/2 As we look at Leech's drawings, or sit in a bead-work chair. (c) bead-bonny adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [adjective] > beautiful in specific way gallant-springing1597 bead-bonny1881 1881 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 89 The beadbonny ash that sits over the burn. bead-brown adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > other browns wainscot1577 earth-coloured1722 honey-brown1774 snuff-coloured1787 snuffy1789 moorit1795 iron brown1798 umber1802 umbery1850 sienna-brown1853 oily-brown1861 seal-brown1881 tabac1881 glandaceous1885 cigar-brown1895 bead-brown1912 cocoa1942 toffee-brown1961 toffee1962 sludgy1975 1912 W. de la Mare Listeners 14 Her small bead-brown eyes. bead-dark adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [adjective] > relating to tone > dark wana1000 swartOE darkOE under-dark1382 sad1415 swartish1483 sable?a1513 dark-coloured?1523 swarth?1527 fuskish1563 swarty1572 saturnine1581 sable-suiteda1592 sable visaged1608 gloomy1632 sable-vested1667 fuscous1671 umbratile1678 sable-hooded1770 gangrenous1794 burnt1897 bead-dark1937 1937 W. de la Mare This Year, Next Year Low head outstretched, and bead-dark eyes. bead-eyed adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adjective] > by size, shape, etc. > having goggle-eyedc1384 well-eyed1483 pink-eyed1519 hollow-eyeda1529 small-eyed1555 great-eyed1558 bird-eyed1564 out-eyed1570 large-eyed1575 full-eyed1581 bright-eyed1590 wall-eyed1590 beetle-eyed1594 fire-eyed?1594 young-eyed1600 open-eyed1601 soft-eyed1606 narrow-eyed1607 broad-eyed?1611 saucer-eyed1612 ox-eyed1621 pig-eyed1655 glare-eyed1683 pit-eyed1696 dove-eyed1717 laughing-eyed1784 almond1786 wide-eyed1789 moon-eyed1790 big-eyed1792 gooseberry-eyed1796 red-eyed1800 unsealed1800 screw-eyed1810 starry-eyed1818 pinkie-eyed1824 pop-eyed1830 bead-eyed1835 fishy-eyed1836 almond-eyed1849 boopic1854 sharp-set1865 bug-eyed1872 beady-eyed1873 bias-eyed1877 blank-eyed1881 gape-eyed1889 glass-eyed1889 stone-eyed1890 pie-eyed1900 slitty-eyed1908 steely-eyed1964 megalopic1985 1835 F. A. Butler Jrnl. II. 179 A fat, good tempered, rosy, bead-eyed, wet-haired, shining-faced looking man accosted me. bead-like adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [adjective] > spherical or globular > very small sphere or pellet pisiform1796 pilular1802 shotty1860 bead-like1876 1876 H. N. Humphreys Coin Coll. Man. xxvi. 400 The minor bead-like decorations, borders of pearls, &c. b. Also bead-roll n. bead-frame n. a frame containing beads strung upon wires used for teaching numeration, an abacus. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical instruments > [noun] > arithmetical instrument > abacus abacus1686 suan-pan1736 bead-frame1858 soroban1891 counting-frame1920 1858 Curwen Singing for Sch. Introd. 20 Till the pupil..is able to perform some of its [arithmetic] simpler operations by the help of the Bead-Frame or the Box of various Objects. bead lightning n. (see quot. 1899); cf. beaded lightning n. at beaded adj. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > lightning > bead or forked lightning chain lightning1825 beaded lightning1889 bead lightning1899 streak lightning1916 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > thunder and lightning > [noun] > lightning > specific types fireball1611 forked lightning1611 summer lightning1679 ball of fire1684 thunder-ball1686 sheet lightning1794 wildfirea1831 heat-lightning1834 globular lightning1843 ribbon lightning1888 beaded lightning1889 bead lightning1899 1899 E. Thomson in Science 25 Aug. 244/2 Bead lightning..is a very beautiful luminous appearance, like a string of beads hung in a cloud. bead-plane n. a carpenter's plane for running a bead on moulding. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > plane > [noun] > other planes rabat1440 long plane1665 strike-block1678 mitre plane1688 straight block1812 ice plane1823 side fillister1841 upright1842 scraping-plane1846 sun plane1846 beading plane1858 bead-plane1858 fluting-plane1864 panel plane1873 badger plane1874 shooting-plane1875 whisk1875 block planea1884 scraper-plane1895 chariot plane1909 shoulder plane1935 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Bead-plane, a moulding plane of semicylindrical contour. bead-plant n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > berry-bush or -tree > [noun] > other berry-bushes and their fruit redcurrant1633 dogberry1688 amelanchier1693 cassioberry1753 crownberry1798 crowberry1866 Portugal crakeberry1866 bead-plant1878 osoberry1884 pearl berry1884 1878 R. Thompson Gardener's Assistant 709/2 Nertera scapanioides..Popularly known as the bead plant, owing to the profusion of golden berries it produces. bead-proof adj. (of alcoholic spirits) such that a crown of bubbles (see 4b) formed by shaking will stand for some time after on the surface (a fallacious test of strength); (later also) of a certain proof, as tested by Wilson's or Lovis's Beads (see 6). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > types or qualities of intoxicating liquor > [adjective] > strong strongeOE stalec1300 mainc1400 nappyc1460 starkc1485 nase?1536 huff-cap1599 nippitatum1600 intoxicating1604 inebriating1610 distempering1613–18 inebriative1615 toxing1635 hogen mogen1653 napping1654 humming1675 hard1700 inebriousa1704 ebrietating1711 bead-proof1753 steeve1801 high-proof1810 pithy1812 stiff1813 inebriant1828 reverent1837 a little more north1864 ebriating1872 rorty1950 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Bead-proof, a term used by our distillers. bead rim n. a thickened, rounded rim (cf. 5c); also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] > rim brink1382 berda1425 edgea1450 lip1592 beaded1917 bead rim1936 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > [noun] > that which forms the edge or border > thickened and rounded beaded1917 bead rim1936 bead1962 1936 Antiquaries Jrnl. 16 270 The bead rim and the countersunk handle. 1943 R. E. M. Wheeler Maiden Castle iii. 204 The rolled or ‘bead’ rim, which is predominantly characteristic of the ‘Wessex hill-fort B’ pottery, is in origin a device, not of the potter, but of the metal-worker, who thus gave rigidity to the lip of a vessel of thin metal. bead-rimmed adj. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [adjective] > having specific rim bead-rimmed1940 1940 V. G. Childe Prehist. Communities Brit. Isles xiii. 251 The ceramic industry was industrialized, specialist potters turning out en masse bead-rimmed vases of Continental pattern. bead screen n. beaded screen (see beaded adj. 1d). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > projection > [noun] > screen scrim1891 cinema screen1912 movie screen1912 widescreen1920 silver screen1924 bead screen1934 screen1952 split screen1953 pinscreen1959 1934 Amateur Cine World May 10/1 The most satisfactory type of screen so far evolved..is that known as the glass, bead or crystal. 1938 G. H. Sewell Amateur Film-making vi. 60 The silver and bead screens are an attempt to secure the utmost reflection of light from the projector. bead-sedge n. the Bur-reed ( Sparganium ramosum). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > reed or the reed plant > reed-like plants bead-sedge1562 knop-sedge1562 reed-grass1578 bur-reed1597 reed bent grass1781 reed bent1859 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 143^v It maye be called bede sedge or knop sedge. 1863 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants 17 Bede-sedge, from its round bead-like burs..Sparganium ramosum. bead-snake n. a small American snake ( Elaps fulvus). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Elapidae or Najidae > member of genus Elaps stag-snake1668 bead-snake1737 coral-snake1758 coral-serpent1774 garter-snake1775 nachtslang1821 death adder1833 coral1852 1737 Dr. Mortimer in Philos. Trans. 1735–6 (Royal Soc.) 39 258 The Bead-Snake..commonly found under Ground. 1867 J. G. Wood Pop. Nat. Hist. iii. 52 One of the brightest and loveliest of Serpents is the Bead Snake of North America. bead-stone n. (a) a stone used as a bead, or of which beads are made; (b) Zoology (see quot. 1896). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > bead beadc1400 bugle1573 bead-stone1677 bugle bead1713 poppit1955 the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > jewellery of specific shape or form > [noun] > bead(s) graina1350 juniper-beads1486 beadc1500 adder-stone1587 bead-stone1677 adder-bead1694 wampumpeag1705 wampum1753 strand1825 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > division Pelmatozoa > class Crinoidea > fossil or encrinite > fragments or joints of St. Cuthbert's beads1697 fairy beads1767 basket-stones1851 fairy cheeses1869 bead-stone1896 1677 London Gaz. No. 1202/4 Three broad Chains set with Bead Stones. 1851 D. Wilson Archæol. & Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. iv. vi. 564 Bone draughtsmen or bead-stones of the tumuli. 1896 Trans. Victoria Inst. XXVIII. 206 Bead-stone is also called St. Cuthbert's beads, Fairy beads..and St. Boniface's money. They are the ring-like transverse sections of the so-called Vertical Column of stalked Echinoderms. bead-tree n. the azedarac n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > [noun] > azedarac white cedar1654 bead-tree1668 azedarac1753 Melia1753 pride of China1778 pride of India1803 margosa1813 neema1819 China-tree1819 sandal-tree1864 holy tree1866 China-berry1890 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. iv. §7. 115 Clove Tree, Bede Tree. 1852 T. Ross tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. Amer. II. xvii. 136 Hedges of bead-trees. bead-work n. (a) ornamental work with beads; also attributive; so bead-worked adj.; (b) bead moulding ( 5). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [adjective] > ornamented with beads beaded1587 bugle1611 bugled1730 beady1892 bead-worked1909 1909 Daily Chron. 18 Nov. 4/5 Painted and bead-worked lampshades. 1920 J. Galsworthy In Chancery i. xii A gilt chair with a bead-worked seat. Draft additions September 2013 bead curtain n. a hanging screen formed of a series of long, vertical strands of threaded beads, usually covering a doorway or entrance. ΚΠ 1887 Essex Standard 16 Apr. 5/7 The three doorways..hung with very handsome bead-curtains. 1938 D. Kincaid Brit. Social Life in India ix. 250 They went slowly, between bead curtains held apart by servants, into the dining-room. 2013 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 17 Jan. Separated from the foyer by a stainless-steel bead curtain is a living room with 19-foot-ceilings. bead wire n. any of the wires which make up the bead of a pneumatic tyre; the bead itself. ΚΠ 1922 H. C. Pearson Pneumatic Tires v. 83 A machine has been developed that should be installed for insulating the bead wire. 1986 Cycletouring Jan. 33/2 Drop us a line describing which part of the tyre casing split (just above the bead wire seems a favourite place). 1998 U.S. Patent 5,769,982 23 June The radial carcass reinforcements of such tires generally comprise several plies of textile cords which are anchored in each bead to at least one bead wire and generally a single bead wire. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022). beadv. Brit. /biːd/, U.S. /bid/ Etymology: < bead n. 1. transitive. To furnish, adorn, or work with beads. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > ornament [verb (transitive)] > ornament with beads bead1587 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 858/1 A cloake of broched sattin..beded from the shoulder to the wast. 1822 T. L. Beddoes Brides' Trag. iii. iv. 76 Drops enough to bead a thousand such [necklaces.] 1856 C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain i. xxii. 226 Morning dew, which beaded the webs of the spiders. 2. Architecture. To furnish with a bead or beading. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [verb (transitive)] > furnish with moulding reed1818 bead1851 dogtooth1851 1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. xxii. 258 If we take the plain chamfer..and bead both its edges. 3. intransitive. To form a bead or beads. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > take curved three-dimensional shape [verb (intransitive)] > become spherical or globular > form into small spheres pearl1595 bead1873 1873 R. D. Blackmore Cradock Nowell (1881) viii. 29 The fescue grass was beading rough with dew. 1884 Harper's Mag. Mar. 524/2 Every drop of water beading on the wall becomes a jewel. 4. To string like beads; also figurative, and intransitive const. out. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > arrangement in (a) row(s) or line(s > arrange in (a) row(s) or line(s [verb (transitive)] > string together enfile1393 file1581 string1612 thread1633 bead1883 the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > longitudinal extent > extend longitudinally [verb (intransitive)] > be strung out bead1938 1883 Harper's Mag. June 117/1 The houses are beaded along the..stream. 1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock vii. vii. 326 The Brighton lamps beaded out towards Worthing. 5. To aim at (cf. bead n. 4d). ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > direct [verb (transitive)] > aim at mete1598 rove1598 levy1618 mean1633 to cover (with a gun, pistol, etc.)1693 to draw a bead upon1831 target1837 sight1871 bead1888 1888 Eng. Illustr. Mag. Dec. 214/1 Never fire until you have beaded your man. 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