Usually means: Prayer beads for Catholic devotion.
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  1. rosary: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rosary, the Rosary, the rosary: Merriam-Webster
  3. rosary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rosary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rosary: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rosary: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rosary, rosary: Wordnik
  8. rosary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. rosary: Wiktionary
  10. rosary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. rosary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. rosary: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. rosary: Dictionary.com
  14. rosary: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. rosary: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Rosary, The Rosary (novel), The Rosary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Rosary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. rosary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. rosary: Rhymezone
  20. Rosary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. rosary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. rosary: FreeDictionary.org
  23. rosary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. rosary: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Beading Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. rosary: Encyclopedia

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  1. rosary: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. rosary: Medical dictionary

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  1. rosary: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. rosary: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Prayer beads, a string of beads used to keep track of repetitions in prayer, particularly in the Roman Catholic Marian prayer "Hail Mary" (Ave Maria)
noun:  A Roman Catholic devotion involving the repetition of a series of Marian prayers, usually 5, 15, or 20 decades of "Hail Marys", each decade beginning with "Our Father" and ending with "Glory Be to the Father", but sometimes including other Roman Catholic, Anglican, or Lutheran prayers.
noun:  (by extension) A series or collection of thoughts, literary pieces, etc. intended for similar contemplation.
noun:  (historical numismatics) A 13th-century coin minted in Europe as a counterfeit debased form of the sterling silver penny of Edward I, at first accepted as a halfpenny and then outlawed.
noun:  A rose garden.

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