Bead vs Bedad - What's the difference?
bead | bedad |
(lb) Prayer, later especially with a rosary.
*1760 , (Laurence Sterne), , Penguin 2003, p.115:
*:That he must believe in the Pope;—go to Mass;—cross himself;—tell his beads ;—be a good Catholick, and that this, in all conscience, was enough to carry him to heaven.
Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.
A small round object.
#A small round object with a hole to allow it to be threaded on a cord or wire.
#A small round solid object.
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, title= #A small drop of water or other liquid.
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#A bubble, in spirits.
#A small round ball at the end of a barrel of a gun used for aiming.
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#*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.
(lb) A ridge, band, or molding.
#A rigid edge of a tire that mounts it on a wheel; tire bead.
A knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.
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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.
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Front sight of a gun.
To form into a bead.
To apply beads to.
To form into a bead.
(dated, chiefly, Irish) by God
* {{quote-book, year=1848, author=William Makepeace Thackeray, title=Vanity Fair, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Lady O'Dowd is also so attached to it that, she says, if anything were to happen to Mick, bedad she'd come back and marry some of 'em. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1867, author=Anthony Trollope, title=Phineas Finn, chapter=, edition=
, passage=But as for the party, bedad , it's rotten to the core, and won't stand another session. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1875, author=Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), title=Sketches New and Old, chapter=, edition=
, passage="Ah, bedad , ye can finish it yourself--it's too expansive for me!" }}
As a noun bead
is (lb) prayer, later especially with a rosary.As a verb bead
is to form into a bead.As an interjection bedad is
(dated|chiefly|irish) by god.bead
English
Noun
(en noun)Charles T. Ambrose
Alzheimer’s Disease, volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads .}}
Derived terms
* anal beads * beady * draw a bead onVerb
(en verb)- The raindrops beaded on the car's waxed finish.
- She spent the morning beading the gown.
- He beaded some solder for the ends of the wire.
Anagrams
* ----bedad
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Interjection
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