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v. t.
To cause to resemble pearls; to make into small round grains; as, to pearl barley.
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A translucent mineral of a green color and pearly or vitreous luster. It is a hydrous arseniate of copper.
v. t.
To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl. Used also figuratively.
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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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Alt. of Pearlstone
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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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Resembling pearl or mother-of-pearl; pearly in quality or appearance.
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Having a pearly speck in the eye; afflicted with the cataract.
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Resembling pearl or pearls; clear; pure; transparent; iridescent; as, the pearly dew or flood.
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Containing pearls; abounding with, or yielding, pearls; as, pearly shells.
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One who dives under water in search of something, as for pearls; a diver.
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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.
v. i.
To resemble pearl or pearls.
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Nacre, or mother-of-pearl.
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Of or pertaining to pearl or pearls; made of pearls, or of mother-of-pearl.
n. pl.
Alt. of Pearlings
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Hence, figuratively, something resembling a pearl; something very precious.
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A large, fine 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.
v. i.
To give or hunt for pearls; as, to go pearling.
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