Part 969

<hw>Bead"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>Molding in imitation of beads.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The beads or bead-forming quality of certain liquors; <as>as, the <ex>beading</ex> of a brand of whisky</as>.</def>

<h1>Beadle</h1> <Xpage=127>

<hw>Bea"dle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>bedel</ets>, <ets>bidel</ets>, <ets>budel</ets>, OF. <ets>bedel</ets>, F. <ets>bedeau</ets>, fr. OHG. <ets>butil</ets>, <ets>putil</ets>, G. <ets>b\'81ttel</ets>, fr. OHG. <ets>biotan</ets>, G. <ets>bieten</ets>, to bid, confused with AS. <ets>bydel</ets>, the same word as OHG. <ets>butil</ets>. See. <er>Bid</er>, <tt>v.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A messenger or crier of a court; a servitor; one who cites or bids persons to appear and answer; -- called also an <altname>apparitor</altname> or <altname>summoner</altname>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An officer in a university, who precedes public processions of officers and students.</def> <mark>[Eng.]</mark>

<note>&hand; In this sense the archaic spellings <i>bedel</i> (Oxford) and <i>bedell</i> (Cambridge) are preserved.</note>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>An inferior parish officer in England having a variety of duties, as the preservation of order in church service, the chastisement of petty offenders, etc.</def>

<h1>Beadlery</h1> <Xpage=127>

<hw>Bea"dle*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Office or jurisdiction of a beadle.</def>

<h1>Beadleship</h1> <Xpage=127>

<hw>Bea"dle*ship</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state of being, or the personality of, a beadle.</def>

<i>A. Wood.</i>

<h1>Bead proof</h1> <Xpage=127>

<hw>Bead" proof`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <p><b>1.</b> <def>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.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Beadroll</h1> <Xpage=127>

<hw>Bead"roll`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(R. C. Ch.)</fld> <def>A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general.</def>

<blockquote>On Fame's eternal <b>beadroll</b> worthy to be field. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>It is quite startling, on going over the <b>beadroll</b> of English worthies, to find how few are directly represented in the male line. <i> Quart. Rev.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Beadsman, Bedesman</h1> <Xpage=127>

<hw><hw>Beads"man</hw>, <hw>Bedes"man</hw><hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>-men</plw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>.</plu> <def>A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman.</def>

<blockquote>Whereby ye shall bind me to be your poor <b>beadsman</b> for ever unto Almighty God. <i>Fuller.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Beadsnake</h1> <Xpage=127>

<hw>Bead"snake`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A small poisonous snake of North America (<spn>Elaps fulvius</spn>), banded with yellow, red, and black.</def>

<h1>Beadswoman, Bedeswoman</h1> <Xpage=127>

<hw><hw>Beads"wom`an</hw>, <hw>Bedes"wom`an</hw><hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>-women</plw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>.</plu> <def>Fem. of <er>Beadsman</er>.</def>

<h1>Beadwork</h1> <Xpage=127>

<hw>Bead"work`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Ornamental work in beads.</def>