ppl. a. [f. BEAD + -ED.]
1. Worked or ornamented with beads.
1577. Holinshed, Chron., III. 858. A cloake of broched sattin … beded from the shoulder to the wast.
1840. Hood, Up the Rhine, 222. The other cap is also embroidered or beaded.
b. Having bead-like protuberances upon the edge.
1697. Lond. Gaz., No. 3298/4. One Beaded Salver without Arms.
1870. Hooker, Stud. Flora, 27. Sisymbrium Trio … London Rocket … valves beaded.
1870. Tyndall, Heat, viii. App. 261. A beaded line of great beauty was observed.
c. Furnished with or wearing beads.
1805. Southey, Madoc in Azt., xxi. Wks. V. 348. His neck with hearts beaded.
1885. Pall Mall Gaz., 13 July, 6/2. Monks … cowled, sandalled, beaded, and picturesque.
2. Formed into or like beads.
1597. Shaks., Lover’s Compl., vi. A thousand fauours from a maund she drew, Of amber christall and of bedded Iet.
1820. Keats, Ode Nightingale, 17. With beaded bubbles winking at the brim.
1872. Black, Adv. Phaeton, ii. 15. Portraits … in which the women have all beaded black eyes.
3. Covered with bubbles.
1884. Harper’s Mag., Sept., 533/2. Beakers of beaded ale.
4. Arch. Having a bead-molding.
