Word Meanings - BEADWORK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Ornamental work in beads.

Related words: (words related to BEADWORK)

• BEADSNAKE
  A small poisonous snake of North America , banded with yellow, red, and black.
• ORNAMENTAL
  Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.
• BEADSMAN; BEDESMAN
  A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman. Whereby ye shall bind me to be your poor beadsman for ever unto Almighty God. Fuller.
• BEADSWOMAN; BEDESWOMAN
  Fem. of Beadsman.
• ORNAMENTALLY
  By way of ornament.
• BAILY'S BEADS
  A row of bright spots observed in connection with total eclipses of the sun. Just before and after a total eclipse, the slender, unobscured crescent of the sun's disk appears momentarily like a row of bright spots resembling a string of beads. The