These are the meanings of the letters BEDAD when you unscramble them.
- Abed (adv.)
In bed, or on the bed.
- Abed (adv.)
To childbed (in the phrase \"brought abed,\" that is, delivered of a child).
- 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.
- Dead (a.)
Bringing death; deadly.
- Dead (a.)
Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property; as, one banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead.
- Dead (a.)
Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man.
- Dead (a.)
Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter.
- Dead (a.)
Flat; without gloss; -- said of painting which has been applied purposely to have this effect.
- Dead (a.)
Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye; dead fire; dead color, etc.
- Dead (a.)
Monotonous or unvaried; as, a dead level or pain; a dead wall.
- Dead (a.)
Not brilliant; not rich; thus, brown is a dead color, as compared with crimson.
- Dead (a.)
Not imparting motion or power; as, the dead spindle of a lathe, etc. See Spindle.
- Dead (a.)
Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep.
- Dead (a.)
So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as, a dead floor.
- Dead (a.)
Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead calm; a dead load or weight.
- Dead (a.)
Sure as death; unerring; fixed; complete; as, a dead shot; a dead certainty.
- Dead (a.)
Unproductive; bringing no gain; unprofitable; as, dead capital; dead stock in trade.
- Dead (a.)
Wanting in religious spirit and vitality; as, dead faith; dead works.
- Dead (adv.)
To a degree resembling death; to the last degree; completely; wholly.
- Dead (n.)
One who is dead; -- commonly used collectively.
- Dead (n.)
The most quiet or deathlike time; the period of profoundest repose, inertness, or gloom; as, the dead of winter.
- Dead (v. i.)
To die; to lose life or force.
- Dead (v. t.)
To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigor.