[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

baily's beads \bai"ly's beads\ astron.
   a row of bright spots observed in connection with total
   eclipses of the sun. just before and after a total eclipse,
   the slender, unobscured crescent of the sun's disk appears
   momentarily like a row of bright spots resembling a string of
   beads. the phenomenon first fully described by francis
   baily, 1774 -- 1844 is thought to be an effect of
   irradiation, and of inequalities of the moon's edge.
   webster 1913 suppl.

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