Beadhouse
(formerly) an almshouse in which the residents were required to pray for the founder.
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lightning in which the intensity appears to vary along the path and which thus resembles a string of beads.
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- Bead plane
a plane for cutting beads.
- Bead test
a laboratory test used in the identification of certain metals or metal const-tuents, in which a bead covered with the material is heated in a flame and cooled to observe its properties.
- Bead tree
barbados pride (def 1). historical examples the bead tree, so called from the seeds being used for rosaries, bearing much-branched panicles of fragrant lilac flowers. trees and shrubs for english gardens ernest thomas cook