beadlet

[Eng. bead, and dim in. suff. -let.] 1. Gen. A little bead. 2. Zool.: A name for the most common Sea-anemone on the British shores ( Actinia mesembryanthemum). [ACTINIA.] bē'ad-roll, * bē'de-roll, 8. Among Roman Catholics: 1. Lit : A catalogue of those for the repose of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be offered, the count being kept by the telling of beads. prayng for the saules of the seid John Tan field and Agnes hys wyff yerely vppon Sondays by hys bederolle in the pulpitt,..." - English Gilds (Early Eng. Text Soc .), p. 145. IMG:content-1144.png:[blocks in formation] "Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled On fame's eternall beadroll worthy to be fyled." Spenser: F. Q., IV. ii. 32. (b) A catalogue of those who are execrated, instead of being prayed for. "The king, for the better credit of his espials abroad, did use to have them cursed by name amongst the bead-roll of the king's enemies."- Bacon : Henry VII. † bē'ads-bid-ding, * bēdes * byd-děng, 8. [Eng. bead (q.v.).] The act of saying "bedes, i.e. prayers, specially when the memory is a isted by the use of material beads. [BEAD, BID.] "God of hus goodne e, sech hus grete wil With oute mo bedes byddyng . Piers Plowman , p. 205. (Richardson.)