Small balls of glass or pearl, or other substance, strung upon a thread, and used by the Romanists to count their prayers ; from whence the phrase ''to tell beads," or to be at one's ' ' beads, " is, to be at prayer. — JOHNSO.X. « MS. : At lost he... Schwäbisches Wörterbuch, mit etymologischen und historischen Anmerkungen - Seite 34 von Johann Christoph von Schmid (of Würtemberg.) - 1831 Vollansicht -
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