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- English Word Peal Definition A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale; also, the changes rung on a set of bells.
- English Word Peal Definition To utter or give out loud sounds.
- English Word Peal Definition To resound; to echo.
- English Word Peal Definition To utter or give forth loudly; to cause to give out loud sounds; to noise abroad.
- English Word Peal Definition To assail with noise or loud sounds.
- English Word Peal Definition To pour out.
- English Word Pealed Definition of Peal
- English Word Pealing Definition of Peal
- English Word Pean Definition One of the furs, the ground being sable, and the spots or tufts or.
- English Word Pean Definition A song of praise and triumph. See Paean.
- English Word Peanism Definition The song or shout of praise, of battle, or of triumph.
- English Word Peanut Definition The fruit of a trailing leguminous plant (Arachis hypogaea); also, the plant itself, which is widely cultivated for its fruit.
- English Word Pear Definition The fleshy pome, or fruit, of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus communis), cultivated in many varieties in temperate climates; also, the tree which bears this fruit. See Pear family, below.
- English Word Pear-shaped Definition Of the form of a pear.
- English Word Pearch Definition See Perch.
- English Word Pearl Definition A fringe or border.
- English Word Pearl Definition To fringe; to border.
- English Word Pearl Definition 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.
- English Word Pearl Definition Hence, figuratively, something resembling a pearl; something very precious.
- English Word Pearl Definition Nacre, or mother-of-pearl.
- English Word Pearl Definition A fish allied to the turbot; the brill.
- English Word Pearl Definition A light-colored tern.
- English Word Pearl Definition One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler.
- English Word Pearl Definition A whitish speck or film on the eye.
- English Word Pearl Definition A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing some liquid for medicinal application, as ether.
- English Word Pearl Definition A size of type, between agate and diamond.
- English Word Pearl Definition Of or pertaining to pearl or pearls; made of pearls, or of mother-of-pearl.
- English Word Pearl Definition To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl. Used also figuratively.
- English Word Pearl Definition To cause to resemble pearls; to make into small round grains; as, to pearl barley.
- English Word Pearl Definition To resemble pearl or pearls.