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bead
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bead (bēd) a small spherical structure or mass.
rachitic beads  a series of prominences at the points where the ribs join their cartilages; seen in certain cases of rickets.


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com (Staff) If attackers intent on data theft can tap into an electrical socket near a computer or if they can draw a bead on the machine with a laser, they can steal whatever is being typed into it.
Retired auto worker and widower Walt Kowalski (Eastwood) feels the weight of the Korean boys he killed in combat half a century before, even as he picks up the very same rifle to draw a bead on local Hmong hoods terrorizing his decaying Detroit neighborhood.
By switching the gun to the left shoulder, I was able to draw a bead on him.
 
 
 
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