bead

• In half the children, a bead was applied to the Extra-1 acupoint, which is located in the midpoint between the eyebrows. —  Signs of the Times
• In the other half, the bead was applied to a spot above the left eyebrow that has no reported clinical effects. —  Signs of the Times
• Inside was a small globular blackstone relic casket, two small hemipsherical metal cups a little over an inch in diameter with a gold bead on the apex of one, and the bead (fallen out of the other; another small bead, two double pearls, also four gold lotus flowers 1.2 inch in diameter, two trisulas in thin plates 1.2 by 1 inch, seven triangular bits of gold, a single and a double gold bead--the weight of these gold articles being about 148 grains. —  The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1
• They are inserted in a sponge-bead, and are designed to remove the cake usually caused by the adherence of the bottoms of the cylinders to the bottom of the bore The edges of the scrapers are so bevelled as to act only when turned to the right, or with the sun Scrapers are also to be supplied for rifled cannon, made to clean a groove and the adjacent lands ORDINARY HANDSPIKES 237. —  Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.
• The natives assisted us to roll them to and from the pond; and a nail or a bead was the expence of their labour. —  A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World Volume 2

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