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pearls, plural;
  1. Form pearllike drops
    • - the juice on the blade pearled into droplets
  2. Make bluish-gray like a pearl
    • - the peaked hills, blue and pearled with clouds
  3. Dive or fish for pearl oysters

Noun
  1. A hard, lustrous spherical mass, typically white or bluish-gray, formed within the shell of a pearl oyster or other bivalve mollusk and highly prized as a gem

  2. An artificial imitation of this

  3. A necklace of pearls

  4. Something resembling a pearl in appearance
    • - the sweat stood in pearls along his forehead
  5. A precious thing; the finest example of something
    • - the nation's media were assembled to hear his pearls of wisdom
  6. A very pale bluish gray or white like the color of a pearl

  1. a smooth lustrous round structure inside the shell of a clam or oyster; much valued as a jewel
  2. gather pearls, from oysters in the ocean
  3. bone: a shade of white the color of bleached bones
  4. drop: a shape that is spherical and small; "he studied the shapes of low-viscosity drops"; "beads of sweat on his forehead"
  5. Pearl is the fourth and final album by Janis Joplin, released on February 1, 1971—four months after her death from a heroin overdose. It is her first album recorded with Full Tilt Boogie Band.
  6. The Pearl Brewing Company (also known as the Pearl Brewery or just Pearl) was an American brewery, established in 1883 in San Antonio, Texas. In 1985, Pearl's parent company purchased the Pabst Brewing Company and assumed the Pabst name. ...
  7. The color pearl is a pale tint of off-white. It is a representation of the average color of a pearl.
  8. Pearl Station is a DART Light Rail station located in the City Center District of downtown Dallas, Texas (USA) on Bryan Street, east of Pearl Street. ...
  9. Pearl is a primarily feminine given name derived from the English word pearl, a hard, roundish object produced within the soft tissue of a living, shelled mollusk. Pearls are commonly used in jewelry-making. The pearl is the birthstone for the month of June. ...
  10. Pearl is an American literary journal founded by Joan Jobe Smith in 1974. Currently Pearl releases an annual fiction issue and an annual poetry issue as well as hosting an annual poetry prize. It is currently edited by Joan Jobe Smith, Marilyn Johnson, and Barbara Hauk.
  11. A female given name from the English noun pearl
  12. 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. ...
  13. (Pearled) [dehulled grains] reduced to smaller smooth particles by machine brushing or abrasion.
  14. (PEARLS) A small molding resembling a string of pearls. Also known as BEADS.
  15. 'Pearls' have round crowns and are short and thick. (also see Rice)
  16. (Pearls) A set of bright glowing stars that do not leave a trail but silently rise and dissolve into the heavens.
  17. (Pearls) Finishes which include mica flakes in addition to the pigment and binder.
  18. (Pearls) Occult properties of. Amongst the early Greeks and Romans, the wearing of gems as an amulet or talisman, was much in vogue. For this purpose pearls were often made into crowns. ...
  19. (Pearls) Referring to fabric embellished with pearls.
  20. (Pearls) Round, edible sugar balls coated with a pearl dust (in almost any color) used for decorative purposes. Pearls can be individual or in strings.
  21. (Pearls) Smooth, hard material found in oysters and other sea shells. Pearls are highly prized
  22. (Pearls) To dream of pearls, is a forerunner of good business and trade and affairs of social nature. ...
  23. (Pearls) a deeper study into the Bible Bowl book(s) selected for the convention year. A 13-lesson study is prepared by the National Service Center each year. Various biblically-sound authors are selected to write the chapters.
  24. (Pearls) are organic gems grown within oysters and some other mollusks.  They form when a foreign object acts as an irritant and the mollusk secretes nacre, a lustrous substance that coats the foreign body in layers and eventually a pearl is formed. ...
  25. (Pearls) around her neck, sacred to Venus.