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▸ noun:  (archaic) Prayer, later especially with a rosary.
▸ noun:  Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.
▸ noun:  A small, round object.
▸ noun:  A small, round object with a hole to allow it to be threaded on a cord or wire, particularly for decorative purposes.
▸ noun:  Various small, round solid objects.
▸ noun:  A small drop of water or other liquid.
▸ noun:  A bubble, in spirits.
▸ noun:  A small, round ball at the end of a barrel of a gun used for aiming.
▸ noun:  (by extension) Knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.
▸ noun:  A ridge, band, or molding.
▸ noun:  A rigid edge of a tire that mounts it on a wheel; tire bead.
▸ noun:  (architecture) A narrow molding with semicircular section.
▸ noun:  (physical chemistry, dated) A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To form into a bead.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To apply beads to.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To form into a bead.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To cause beads to form on (something).

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