Word Meanings - BEADY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Resembling beads; small, round, and glistening. "Beady eyes." Thackeray. 2. Covered or ornamented with, or as with, beads. 3. Characterized by beads; as, beady liquor.

Related words: (words related to BEADY)

• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• BEADSNAKE
  A small poisonous snake of North America , banded with yellow, red, and black.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• ROUNDFISH
  Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
• ROUND-UP
  The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• 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.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• BEADY
  1. Resembling beads; small, round, and glistening. "Beady eyes." Thackeray. 2. Covered or ornamented with, or as with, beads. 3. Characterized by beads; as, beady liquor.
• LIQUORISH
  See SHAK
• ROUNDSMAN
  A patrolman; also, a policeman who acts as an inspector over the rounds of the patrolmen.
• 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.
• COVERT BARON
  Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
• ROUNDHEADED
  Having a round head or top.
• LIQUORICE
  See LICORICE
• ROUNDHEAD
  A nickname for a Puritan. See Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. Toone.
• COVERTNESS
  Secrecy; privacy.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• QUARTER ROUND
  An ovolo.
• FOREGROUND
  On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.