Wiktionary
n. A string of beads used by members of various religions to count prayers, chants or devotions.
WordNet
n. beads used in counting prayers (especially Catholic rosary) [syn: rosary]
Wikipedia
Prayer beads are used by members of various religious traditions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Catholicism/ Orthodoxy, Islam, Sikhism and the Bahá'í Faith to mark the repetitions of prayers, chants or devotions, such as the rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Catholicism, and dhikr (remembrance of God) in Islam.
Usage examples of "prayer beads".
She also had squirreled away the ivory crochet hook, three of Frex's prayer beads because she liked the carvings, and the pretty green glass bottle left behind by some itinerant salesman selling, apparently, dreams and passion and somnolence.
I shifted my grip on the precious prayer beads so that the cross dangled, swinging slightly.
He must have left his light globe below in the pit, though his prayer beads swung from his left wrist.
Naturally I was reminded of the practice of placing a jadestone chip in the mouth of someone dead, and I thought the prayer beads might be similarly and beneficially employed by the not yet dead.
He emptied their pockets, dropping his prayer beads, Blood's two cards, and the rest on the scarred old kitchen table.
The prayer beads came out and slowly he begins rolling them through his fingers.
Far from sleep, he listened to the wind outside and to the woman in the other room clicking her prayer beads and intoning the same litany over and over.
He looked down at his red prayer beads and said in the tired voice of a depleted revolutionary: “.
You speak in my voice and act in my image& Ark Veinsplitter counted those words through his head like prayer beads as he decided what to say to his hass.
The cards had become a kind of talisman for me, a calming instrument, unconsciously handled in the way others finger prayer beads or pill bottles.
Bian, the monk was lying on his back staring into the moonlight, his prayer beads lying half across his face.