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Beading   Listen
noun
Beading  n.  
1.
(Arch.) Molding in imitation of beads.
2.
The beads or bead-forming quality of certain liquors; as, the beading of a brand of whisky.


verb
Bead  v. t.  (past & past part. beaded; pres. part. beading)  To ornament with beads or beading.


Bead  v. i.  To form beadlike bubbles.





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"Beading" Quotes from Famous Books



... for hand work," she reiterated. "I know only embroidery and mending and knitting and the beading of purses—as they should ...
— Little Miss By-The-Day • Lucille Van Slyke
... Whichever is chosen, let the coloring be first mixed with a little colorless spirit and then stirred into the white icing until the tint is deep enough. To ornament the cake with it, make a cone of stiff writing paper and squeeze the colored icing through it, so as to form leaves, beading or letters, as the case may be. It requires nicety and care to do ...
— The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) - The Whole Comprising A Comprehensive Cyclopedia Of Information For - The Home • Mrs. F.L. Gillette
... a hot flush mounting to his temples. The blood there seemed to sting him. Then, as suddenly, he went white, clammy perspiration beading his forehead ...
— Dick Prescotts's Fourth Year at West Point - Ready to Drop the Gray for Shoulder Straps • H. Irving Hancock
... "Why, you—you—why—the idea!" She turned slowly white. Certain things must filter to the understanding through amazement and disbelief; it took Val a minute or two to grasp the significance of what she saw. By the time she did grasp it, her knees were beading weakly beneath the weight of her body. She put out a groping hand and caught at the corner of the corral to keep herself from falling. And she stared ...
— Lonesome Land • B. M. Bower
... stealing in shadow under the beams of overhanging eaves by a garret window, behind which was a light, and someone moving—then a spring of three feet between two cornices— then a running walk at a height of a hundred feet along a beading four inches wide, holding on with the upstretched arms—then, with course changed from south to east, along more leads—then a climb of ten feet up a glazed main—and now they were skulking behind the coping of the great No. ...
— The Lord of the Sea • M. P. Shiel


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