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n.
A glassy volcanic rock of a grayish color and pearly luster, often having a spherulitic concretionary structure due to the curved cracks produced by contraction in cooling. See Illust. under Perlitic.
a.
Containing pearls; abounding with, or yielding, pearls; as, pearly shells.
a.
Of the form of a pear.
v. t.
To cause to resemble pearls; to make into small round grains; as, to pearl barley.
n. pl.
Alt. of Pearlings
v. t.
To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl. Used also figuratively.
a.
Resembling pearl or mother-of-pearl; pearly in quality or appearance.
n.
Hence, figuratively, something resembling a pearl; something very precious.
a.
Of or pertaining to pearl or pearls; made of pearls, or of mother-of-pearl.
v. i.
To resemble pearl or pearls.
a.
Having a pearly speck in the eye; afflicted with the cataract.
v. i.
To give or hunt for pearls; as, to go pearling.
n.
Alt. of Pearlstone
a.
Resembling pearl or pearls; clear; pure; transparent; iridescent; as, the pearly dew or flood.
n.
Nacre, or mother-of-pearl.
a.
Active; lively; brisk; smart; -- often applied to convalescents; as, she is quite peart to-day.
n.
A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Pearls which are round, or nearly round, and of fine luster, are highly esteemed as jewels, and compare in value with the precious stones.
n.
Any fish whose scales yield a pearl-like pigment used in manufacturing artificial pearls, as the bleak, and whitebait.
n.
The fleshy pome, or fruit, of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus communis), cultivated in many varieties in temperate climates; also, the tree which bears this fruit. See Pear family, below.
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The name of several kinds of apples; as, the blue pearmain, winter pearmain, and red pearmain.
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