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Webster 1913 Edition
Beadroll
Bead′rollˊ
,Noun.
(R. C. Ch.)
A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general.
On Fame’s eternal
beadroll
worthy to be filed. Spenser.
It is quite startling, on going over the
beadroll
of English worthies, to find how few are directly represented in the male line. Quart. Rev.