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Pearl
v. t.
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To cause to resemble pearls; to make into small round grains; as, to pearl barley.
Pearl
v. i.
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To resemble pearl or pearls.
Pearl
v. i.
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To give or hunt for pearls; as, to go pearling.
Pearlaceous
a.
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Resembling pearl or mother-of-pearl; pearly in quality or appearance.
Pearlash
n.
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A white amorphous or granular substance which consists principally of potassium carbonate, and has a strong alkaline reaction. It is obtained by lixiviating wood ashes, and evaporating the lye, and has been an important source of potassium compounds. It is used in making soap, glass, etc.
Pearl-eyed
a.
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Having a pearly speck in the eye; afflicted with the cataract.
Pearlfish
n.
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Any fish whose scales yield a pearl-like pigment used in manufacturing artificial pearls, as the bleak, and whitebait.
Pearlins
n. pl.
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Alt. of Pearlings
Pearlings
n. pl.
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A kind of lace of silk or thread.
Pearlite
n.
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Alt. of Pearlstone
Pearlstone
n.
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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.
Pearlwort
n.
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A name given to several species of Sagina, low and inconspicuous herbs of the Chickweed family.
Pearly
a.
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Containing pearls; abounding with, or yielding, pearls; as, pearly shells.
Pearly
a.
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Resembling pearl or pearls; clear; pure; transparent; iridescent; as, the pearly dew or flood.
Pearmain
n.
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The name of several kinds of apples; as, the blue pearmain, winter pearmain, and red pearmain.
Pear-shaped
a.
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Of the form of a pear.
Peart
a.
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Active; lively; brisk; smart; -- often applied to convalescents; as, she is quite peart to-day.
Peasant
n.
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A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries.
Peasant
a.
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Rustic, rural.
Peasantlike
a.
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Rude; clownish; illiterate.
Peasantly
a.
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Peasantlike.
Peasantry
n.
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Peasants, collectively; the body of rustics.
Peasantry
n.
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Rusticity; coarseness.
Peascod
n.
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The legume or pericarp, or the pod, of the pea.
Peases
pl.
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of Pease
Peasen
pl.
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of Pease
Pease
n.
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A pea.
Pease
n.
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A plural form of Pea. See the Note under Pea.
Peastone
n.
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Pisolite.
Peasweep
n.
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The pewit, or lapwing.