bead

Meanings

1. 1
   noun Prayer, later especially with a rosary.
2. 2
   noun Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.
3. 3
   noun A small, round object.
4. 4
   noun (heading) A ridge, band, or molding.
5. 5
   noun Knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.
6. 6
   noun 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.
7. 7
   noun Front sight of a gun.
8. 8
   verb To form into a bead.
9. 9
   verb To apply beads to.
10. 10
    verb To form into a bead.
11. 11
    verb To cause beads to form on (something).