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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Beadroll \Bead"roll`\, n. (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.
[1913 Webster]
On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be filed.
--Spenser.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster] Beadsman