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worry beads

a string of smooth beads designed to be handled or stroked, as to relieve anxiety or nervousness: popular esp. in the Near East

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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