BPage 66
- English Word Beachy Definition Having a beach or beaches; formed by a beach or beaches; shingly.
- English Word Beacon Definition A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning.
- English Word Beacon Definition A signal or conspicuous mark erected on an eminence near the shore, or moored in shoal water, as a guide to mariners.
- English Word Beacon Definition A high hill near the shore.
- English Word Beacon Definition That which gives notice of danger.
- English Word Beacon Definition To give light to, as a beacon; to light up; to illumine.
- English Word Beacon Definition To furnish with a beacon or beacons.
- English Word Beaconage Definition Money paid for the maintenance of a beacon; also, beacons, collectively.
- English Word Beaconed Definition of Beacon
- English Word Beaconing Definition of Beacon
- English Word Beaconless Definition Having no beacon.
- English Word Bead Definition A prayer.
- English Word Bead Definition 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.
- English Word Bead Definition Any small globular body
- English Word Bead Definition A bubble in spirits.
- English Word Bead Definition A drop of sweat or other liquid.
- English Word Bead Definition A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim).
- English Word Bead Definition A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments.
- English Word Bead Definition 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.
- English Word Bead Definition To ornament with beads or beading.
- English Word Bead Definition To form beadlike bubbles.
- English Word Bead proof Definition Among distillers, a certain degree of strength in alcoholic liquor, as formerly ascertained by the floating or sinking of glass globules of different specific gravities thrown into it; now ascertained by more accurate meters.
- English Word Bead proof Definition A degree of strength in alcoholic liquor as shown by beads or small bubbles remaining on its surface, or at the side of the glass, when shaken.
- English Word Beaded Definition of Bead
- English Word Beadhouse Definition Alt. of Bedehouse
- English Word Beading Definition of Bead
- English Word Beading Definition Molding in imitation of beads.
- English Word Beading Definition The beads or bead-forming quality of certain liquors; as, the beading of a brand of whisky.
- English Word Beadle Definition A messenger or crier of a court; a servitor; one who cites or bids persons to appear and answer; -- called also an apparitor or summoner.
- English Word Beadle Definition An officer in a university, who precedes public processions of officers and students.