bead

«bead» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: bead; prayer — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

bead; prayer

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

A small ball with a hole through it; in older English also a prayer. tree →

how it differs from today

The first sentence uses today's sense. In the Westcott line it seems to mean something like a prayer, an old sense.

examples

• Perspiration hung like beads on his brow. (Old Indian Legends) tree →
• The Tenth Path is the Resplendent Intelligence, because it is exalted above every bead, and sits on the throne of BINAH (the Intelligence spoken of in the Third Path). (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) tree →
• She wore a silk dress, golden bracelets, and large amber beads. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) tree →

primary record

bead

tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 8 (Torah 0, tales 5, Sefer Yetzirah 3); EWT 0; ratio 0.9 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

In the corpora

• Thy cheeks are comely with circlets, thy neck with beads.
• With 10 red beads there are 10 / 2 = 5 groups, so there are 5 × 3 = 15 blue beads.
• If you know all the beads instead, one group has 2 + 3 = 5 beads, and 15 beads make 3 groups.
• Road lines are painted with special paint that has tiny glass beads in it, so the lines reflect headlights at night.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bead» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.