What is the meaning of PEARL. Phrases containing PEARL
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Adj. Cold weather. A pun on 'there being a nasty nip in the air'... from nip(py) (cold) and nip (Japanese). E.g."Put on your scarf and hat, it's pearl harbour out there." [1990s]
Ivory pearl is London Cockney rhyming slang for girl.
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Pearly whites is British slang for teeth.
Pearlies is British slang for teeth.
Pearly gates is slang for teeth.
Black pearl is slang for heroin.
To leave. "I'll catch you later. I’m about to pearl."Â
morning glory seeds
Pearly gate is London Cockney rhyming slang for a dinner plate.
Pearl Harbour is slang for cold weather.
Noun. Ejaculated semen that has landed around the vicinity of the neck and upper chest, imitative of a pearl necklace.
amyl nitrite
cocaine
Ocean pearl was th century London Cockney rhyming slang for a girl.
Pearly king is London Cockney rhyming slang for the anus (ring).
Pearl−diver is slang for a washer−up.
Pearls is slang for amyl nitrate (or any associated inhalant drug).
Brilliant, e.g. "That was a pearler of a goal by Giggs!".
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n. pl.
Alt. of Pearlings
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A translucent mineral of a green color and pearly or vitreous luster. It is a hydrous arseniate of copper.
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Hence, figuratively, something resembling a pearl; something very precious.
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One who dives under water in search of something, as for pearls; a diver.
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Of or pertaining to pearl or pearls; made of pearls, or of mother-of-pearl.
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Resembling pearl or pearls; clear; pure; transparent; iridescent; as, the pearly dew or flood.
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To cause to resemble pearls; to make into small round grains; as, to pearl barley.
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Resembling pearl or mother-of-pearl; pearly in quality or appearance.
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A large, fine pearl.
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Nacre, or mother-of-pearl.
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The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
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Alt. of Pearlstone
v. i.
To give or hunt for pearls; as, to go pearling.
v. t.
To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl. Used also figuratively.
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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.
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Any fish whose scales yield a pearl-like pigment used in manufacturing artificial pearls, as the bleak, and whitebait.
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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.
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Containing pearls; abounding with, or yielding, pearls; as, pearly shells.
v. i.
To resemble pearl or pearls.
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Having a pearly speck in the eye; afflicted with the cataract.
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