Beadlet

the popular name of the common sea anemone (Actinia equina, Linn.). It usually about one inch in height and from one four inches in diameter. It varies greatly in and markings: it may be liver-brown, green, scarlet, crimson, or red, and spotted with or green. It lives as a rule attached to and occurs all round the English coaste. ACTINIA for an account of its anatomy. } Beads are small spherical or cylindrical ornamade of stone, wood, bone, ivory, jet, or or most telaeaen y of gla , and so perforated they can be strung on threads or sewn on as decorative embroidery. Wooden and beads are often elaborately carved; gla are found in the earliest known Egyptian and aggry beads, now highly valued all West Africa, were probably used for barter the natives by the ancient Phoenicians. the fourteenth century gla beads have been manufactured at and near Venice. The is drawn out into rods of very small diameter, are then cut into very short lengths, and still soft are rounded and ee The is in fact derived from the old English dede, prayer. From the use of beads on rosaries to tell one’s beads became synonymous saying prayers, and dedesmen existed in the Ages whose function it was to pray for the naie who employed them. In Scotland the king’s edesmen, or blue-gowns, were privileged beggars.