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Definition of Pearl
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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. Related Definitions:
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Pearl Quotations
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 For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine. Samuel Butler 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 Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no! John Belushi 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 |
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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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