chaplet

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A wreath or garland for the head.
• noun A string of beads resembling a rosary, used to count iterations in a devotional sequence of prayers.
• noun The sequence of prayers counted on such a string of beads.
• noun A string of beads.
• noun Architecture A small molding carved to resemble a string of beads.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To crown or adorn with a chaplet.
• noun A small chapel or shrine.
• noun A wreath, as of natural flowers, worn on the head, especially as a mark of festivity or distinction.
• noun In the middle ages, a circlet of gold or other precious material, more or less ornamented, worn by both men and women.
• noun In heraldry, any garland or wreath, whether of leaves alone, as of laurel or oak, or of flowers.
• noun Any head-dress; a hood or cap.
• noun A string of beads used by Roman Catholics in counting their prayers; a rosary, but strictly only a third of the beads of a rosary.
• noun Anything resembling in form a string of beads.
• noun Same as chapel-de-fer, .
• noun In architecture, a small round molding, carved into beads, pearls, olives, or some similar design.
• noun The tuft or crest of feathers on a fowl's head.
• noun In oyster-culture, a row of shells or other objects suspended on wire to collect the spat.
• noun Same as chapelet in any of its senses.
• noun In foundry-work, a sheet-metal form used in adjusting the core in a mold and fused into the casting when the metal flows into the mold.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A garland or wreath to be worn on the head.
• noun A string of beads, or part of a string, used by Roman Catholic in praying; a third of a rosary, or fifty beads.
• noun (Arch.) A small molding, carved into beads, pearls, olives, etc.
• noun (Man.) A chapelet. See Chapelet, 1.
• noun (Founding) A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mold.
• noun A tuft of feathers on a peacock's head.
• noun A small chapel or shrine.
• transitive verb To adorn with a chaplet or with flowers.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A garland or circlet for the head.
• noun A string of beads, especially when making up five decades of the rosary.
• noun A moulding in the form of a string of beads; a bead-moulding.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes