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  1. bead proof: Wordnik [home, info]
  2. Bead proof: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  3. Bead proof: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  4. Bead proof: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  5. bead-proof: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  6. bead proof: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  7. Bead proof: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Quick definitions (bead proof)

  • () 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.
  • () 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.

    (This definition is from the 1913 Webster's Dictionary and may be outdated.)



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