[f. prec.]
1. trans. To furnish, adorn or work with beads.
1577. [see BEADED].
1822. Beddoes, Bride’s Trag., III. iv. Drops enough to bead a thousand such [necklaces].
1856. Miss Yonge, Daisy Ch., I. xxii. (1879), 228. Morning dew, which beaded the webs of the spiders.
2. Arch. To furnish with a bead or beading.
1851. Ruskin, Stones Ven., I. xxii. § 13. If we take the plain chamfer … and bead both its edges.
3. intr. To form a bead or beads.
1873. Blackmore, Cradock N., viii. (1881), 29. The fescue grass was beading rough with dew.
1884. Harper’s Mag., March, 524/2. Every drop of water beading on the wall becomes a jewel.
4. To string like beads; also fig.
1883. Harper’s Mag., June, 117/1. The houses are beaded along the … stream.
