- (n.) A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing some liquid for medicinal application, as ether.
- (n.) Nacre or mother-of-pearl.
- (v.t.) To set or adorn with pearls or with mother-of-pearl. Used also figuratively.
- (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.) A size of type, between agate and diamond.
- (n.) A whitish speck or film on the eye.
- (n.) One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler.
- (v.t.) To cause to resemble pearls; to make into small round grains; as, to pearl barley.
- (v.t.) To fringe; to border.
- (n.) Hence, figuratively, something resembling a pearl; something very precious.
- (v.i.) To resemble pearl or pearls.
- (n.) A light-colored tern.
- (n.) A fish allied to the turbot; the brill.
- (a.) Of or pertaining to pearl or pearls; made of pearls or of mother-of-pearl.
- (n.) A fringe or border.
- (v.i.) To give or hunt for pearls; as, to go pearling.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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