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v. t.
To cause to resemble pearls; to make into small round grains; as, to pearl barley.
v. i.
To resemble pearl or pearls.
v. i.
To give or hunt for pearls; as, to go pearling.
a.
Of or pertaining to pearl or pearls; made of pearls, or of mother-of-pearl.
a.
Resembling pearl or pearls; clear; pure; transparent; iridescent; as, the pearly dew or flood.
n.
Nacre, or mother-of-pearl.
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.
One who dives under water in search of something, as for pearls; a diver.
n.
A translucent mineral of a green color and pearly or vitreous luster. It is a hydrous arseniate of copper.
a.
Having a pearly speck in the eye; afflicted with the cataract.
v. t.
To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl. Used also figuratively.
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.
Resembling pearl or mother-of-pearl; pearly in quality or appearance.
n.
Hence, figuratively, something resembling a pearl; something very precious.
n.
Alt. of Pearlstone
n.
Any fish whose scales yield a pearl-like pigment used in manufacturing artificial pearls, as the bleak, and whitebait.
n. pl.
Alt. of Pearlings
n.
The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
n.
A large, fine pearl.
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