(Canada, US) the edge of a tire that sits in a groove in the rim.

(Britain) Alternative form of tire bead

(distilleries) A certain degree of strength in alcoholic liquor, as formerly ascertained by the floating or sinking of glass globules of different specific gravities thrown into it, and later by more accurate meters.

Melia azedarach, a deciduous or semi-evergreen tree with poisonous fruit, native to India, Southeast Asia, and northern Australia.

Any insect of the family Berothidae.

plural of beaded lacewing

(archaic, Catholicism) To pray with beads, in Roman Catholic fashion, distinguishing each bead by a prayer.

sensitive fern

The moulding screwed to the inner side of a window frame, on the face of the pulley stile, completing the groove in which the inner sash is to slide.

(architecture) A bead worked on or fixed to the angle of any architectural work, especially for protecting an angle of a wall.