Bidding Beads.

Telling off prayers by beads (Anglo-Saxon, biddan, to ask, to pray).

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Biblical
Bibliomancy
Bibulus
Biceps
Biceps Parnassus (Pers. Prol. 2)
Bickerstaff (Isaac)
Bioorn
Bid
Bid
Bid-ale
Bidding Beads
Bidding-Prayer
Biddy (i.e. Bridget)
Bideford Postman
Bidpai
Biforked Letter of the Greeks
Bifrost
Big
Big Bird
Big-endians
Big Gooseberry Season (The)