Available Definitions:
1) n. - Molding in imitation of beads.
2) n. - The beads or bead-forming quality of certain liquors; as, the beading of a brand of whisky.
3) n. - Any small globular body
4) n. - A bubble in spirits.
5) n. - A drop of sweat or other liquid.
6) n. - A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim).
7) n. - A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments.
8) n. - 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.
9) v. t. - To ornament with beads or beading.
10) v. i. - To form beadlike bubbles.