A prayer.

Any small globular body

A bubble in spirits.

A drop of sweat or other liquid.

A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim
(whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim).

A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually
an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short
embossments.

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.

To ornament with beads or beading.

To form beadlike bubbles.