Definition of Pearl

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Definition of Pearl

Pearl

A fringe or border.

To fringe; to border.

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.

Hence, figuratively, something resembling a pearl; something very precious.

Nacre, or mother-of-pearl.

A fish allied to the turbot; the brill.

A light-colored tern.

One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler.

A whitish speck or film on the eye.

A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing some liquid for medicinal application, as ether.

A size of type, between agate and diamond.

Of or pertaining to pearl or pearls; made of pearls, or of mother-of-pearl.

To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl. Used also figuratively.

To cause to resemble pearls; to make into small round grains; as, to pearl barley.

To resemble pearl or pearls.

To give or hunt for pearls; as, to go pearling.

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Pearl Quotations

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.
Ronald Reagan

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
John Keats

Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!
John Belushi

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.
Phyllis Diller

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
Victor Hugo

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
Samuel Butler

When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.
Hideki Tojo

We're charging what we're worth and we don't think we're worth $22.50. We take a lower cut than Pearl Jam.
Tre Cool

Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble.
Steve Forbes

Pearl Translations

pearl in Dutch is parel
pearl in Finnish is helmi
pearl in French is perle
pearl in German is Perle
pearl in Italian is perla
pearl in Norwegian is perle
pearl in Spanish is perla

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