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- English Word Pearl Definition To give or hunt for pearls; as, to go pearling.
- English Word Pearl-eyed Definition Having a pearly speck in the eye; afflicted with the cataract.
- English Word Pearlaceous Definition Resembling pearl or mother-of-pearl; pearly in quality or appearance.
- English Word Pearlash Definition 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.
- English Word Pearlfish Definition Any fish whose scales yield a pearl-like pigment used in manufacturing artificial pearls, as the bleak, and whitebait.
- English Word Pearlings Definition A kind of lace of silk or thread.
- English Word Pearlins Definition Alt. of Pearlings
- English Word Pearlite Definition Alt. of Pearlstone
- English Word Pearlstone Definition 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.
- English Word Pearlwort Definition A name given to several species of Sagina, low and inconspicuous herbs of the Chickweed family.
- English Word Pearly Definition Containing pearls; abounding with, or yielding, pearls; as, pearly shells.
- English Word Pearly Definition Resembling pearl or pearls; clear; pure; transparent; iridescent; as, the pearly dew or flood.
- English Word Pearmain Definition The name of several kinds of apples; as, the blue pearmain, winter pearmain, and red pearmain.
- English Word Peart Definition Active; lively; brisk; smart; -- often applied to convalescents; as, she is quite peart to-day.
- English Word Peas Definition of Pea
- English Word Peasant Definition A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries.
- English Word Peasant Definition Rustic, rural.
- English Word Peasantlike Definition Rude; clownish; illiterate.
- English Word Peasantly Definition Peasantlike.
- English Word Peasantry Definition Peasants, collectively; the body of rustics.
- English Word Peasantry Definition Rusticity; coarseness.
- English Word Peascod Definition The legume or pericarp, or the pod, of the pea.
- English Word Pease Definition of Pea
- English Word Pease Definition A pea.
- English Word Pease Definition A plural form of Pea. See the Note under Pea.
- English Word Peasen Definition of Pease
- English Word Peases Definition of Pease
- English Word Peastone Definition Pisolite.
- English Word Peasweep Definition The pewit, or lapwing.
- English Word Peasweep Definition The greenfinch.