draw a bead on something Definition

bead
noun

1. A small and usually round ball made of glass or stone, etc strung with others, eg in a necklace.
2. A string of beads worn as jewellery, or one used when praying (a rosary).

Form: beads
3. A small drop of liquid.

Example: beads of sweat
Thesaurus: drop, droplet, globule, pellet, grain, speck, dab, pill, bubble, spherule.
4. beading.
5. The front sight of a gun.

verb

beaded, beading
1. To decorate something with beads or beading.

Derivative: beaded
adj

Idiom: draw a bead on something

colloq
To aim a gun at it.

Idiom: tell one's beads

To pray using a rosary.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon bed in obsolete sense ‘a prayer', from biddan to pray.