Information about English word BEAD

Definitions of BEAD

• Prayer, later especially with a rosary.
• Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.
• A small, round object.
• A ridge, band, or molding.
• Knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.
• 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.
• To form into a bead.
• To apply beads to.
• To cause beads to form on (something).
• Front sight of a gun.

Synonyms for BEAD