These are the meanings of the letters ABBED when you unscramble them.
- Abbe (n.)
The French word answering to the English abbot, the head of an abbey; but commonly a title of respect given in France to every one vested with the ecclesiastical habit or dress.
- Abed (adv.)
In bed, or on the bed.
- Abed (adv.)
To childbed (in the phrase \"brought abed,\" that is, delivered of a child).
- Babe (n.)
A doll for children.
- Babe (n.)
An infant; a young child of either sex; a baby.
- Bade ()
A form of the pat tense of Bid.
- Bade (imp.)
of Bid
- Bead (n.)
A bubble in spirits.
- Bead (n.)
A drop of sweat or other liquid.
- Bead (n.)
A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe; as, the borax bead; the iron bead, etc.
- Bead (n.)
A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer.
- Bead (n.)
A prayer.
- Bead (n.)
A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim).
- Bead (n.)
A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments.
- Bead (n.)
Any small globular body
- Bead (v. i.)
To form beadlike bubbles.
- Bead (v. t.)
To ornament with beads or beading.