Word Meaning

Meaning of "bead" and the crossword clue

- Actress, ... Arthur
- Could be a little princess?
- Could be a princess?
- Golden Girls actress, ... Arthur
- Bit of sweat always begins in bed
- Droplet
- Gun’s front sight
- Necklace ball
- One in a string
- Small ball
- Small glass ball
- Small globular body
- String together
- Sweat droplet
- A prayer.
- A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer.
- Any small globular body
- A bubble in spirits.
- A drop of sweat or other liquid.
- A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim).
- A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments.
- 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; as, the borax bead; the iron bead, etc.
- To ornament with beads or beading.
- To form beadlike bubbles.