PEARL
\pˈɜːl], \pˈɜːl], \p_ˈɜː_l]\
Definitions of PEARL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a shade of white the color of bleached bones
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a smooth lustrous round structure inside the shell of a clam or oyster; much valued as a jewel
By Princeton University
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a shade of white the color of bleached bones
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a smooth lustrous round structure inside the shell of a clam or oyster; much valued as a jewel
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relating to or resembling or made of or adorned with pearls or mother-of-pearl; "a pearl-handled knife"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A fringe or border.
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To fringe; to border.
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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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Hence, figuratively, something resembling a pearl; something very precious.
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Nacre, or mother-of-pearl.
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A fish allied to the turbot; the brill.
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A light-colored tern.
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A whitish speck or film on the eye.
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A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing some liquid for medicinal application, as ether.
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A size of type, between agate and diamond.
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To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl. Used also figuratively.
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To cause to resemble pearls; to make into small round grains; as, to pearl barley.
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To resemble pearl or pearls.
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To give or hunt for pearls; as, to go pearling.
By Oddity Software
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A fringe or border.
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To fringe; to border.
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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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Hence, figuratively, something resembling a pearl; something very precious.
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Nacre, or mother-of-pearl.
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A fish allied to the turbot; the brill.
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A light-colored tern.
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A whitish speck or film on the eye.
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A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing some liquid for medicinal application, as ether.
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A size of type, between agate and diamond.
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To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl. Used also figuratively.
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To cause to resemble pearls; to make into small round grains; as, to pearl barley.
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To resemble pearl or pearls.
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To give or hunt for pearls; as, to go pearling.
By Noah Webster.
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A small round mass of lustrous substance, grayish-white or creamy in color, growing in the mother-of-pearl coating which lines the shell of the oyster, and used as a gem; a pale grayish-white color.
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Consisting or made of pearl.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A well-known shining gem, found in several shelfish, but most in the mother-of-pearl oyster: anything round and clear: anything very precious: a jewel: a white speck or film on the eye: (print.) a kind of type intermediate between agate and diamond.
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Made of or belonging to pearls.
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To set or adorn with pearls.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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In the shells of some Mussels, an abnormal growth formed with a grain of foreign matter or a minute organism for nucleus and many thin layers of nacre surrounding it.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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A roundish concretion of a silvery white colour, and brilliant polish, found in several shells, and especially in the Avicnla margaritifera, which has, hence, been called Mater perlarum, Margarita, and Mother of pearl, and is much used in the fabrication of handles for surgical instruments, &c. Pearls were formerly given in powder as astringents and antacids. They consist of lime and an animal matter.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A shelly concretion found in mollusks, especially in pearl oysters and river mussels.
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See medicinal pearl .
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Anglo-Saxon, French] A white, hard, smooth, lustrous substance, usually roundish, found inside the shells of several species of molluscs, particularly the pearl oyster;—hence, something very precious; a jewel;—something round and clear, as a drop of water or dew;—a variety of printing type, in size between ruby and diamond.
