Beady

a. [f. BEAD sb. + -Y¹.]

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1. Beadlike; (of eyes) small, round and glittering.

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1826. Disraeli, Viv. Grey, I. iv. Small black, beady eyes.

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1848. Thackeray, Van. Fair, xix. (1853), 149. Mrs. Bute’s beady eyes.

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1879. Black, Macleod of D., I. 170. The ugly brute, with its beady eyes and its black snout.

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2. Covered with beads (of liquid, etc.).

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1868. Geo. Eliot, Sp. Gipsy, 243. While he treads painfully with stillest step And beady brow.

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3. Full of bubbles, frothy.

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1881. Harper’s Mag., LXIII. 488. Creamy and beady scum.

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