BEADED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does beaded mean? 

• BEADED (adjective)
  The adjective BEADED has 1 sense:

1. covered with beads of liquid

  Familiarity information: BEADED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEADED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Covered with beads of liquid

Context example:

a face beaded with sweat

Similar:

covered (overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form)

 Context examples 

The bulkheads, all painted in clear white and beaded round with gilt, bore a pattern of dirty hands.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It is characterized by the presence of thin, fragile hairs that appear beaded.

(Monilethrix, NCI Thesaurus)

He lowered it and drew his hunting-knife from its beaded sheath at his hip.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The tears coursed down her cheeks—not freely, however, for when they came into contact with her heavily beaded eyelashes they assumed an inky color, and pursued the rest of their way in slow black rivulets.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)