pearl
/pɝl/ verb C2- To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl.
- To cause to resemble pearls in shape; to make into small round grains. · to pearl barley
- To cause to resemble pearls in lustre or iridescence.
- To resemble pearl or pearls.
- To bead; to form droplets.
- To hunt for pearls · to go pearling
- To sink the nose of one's surfboard into the water, often on takeoff.
- Of the nose of the surfboard: to sink in this manner.
He/she/it pearls · Past pearled · Past participle pearled · -ing form pearling
Verb forms
- Base form
- pearl
- He/she/it
- pearls
- Past
- pearled
- Past participle
- pearled
- -ing form
- pearling
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The air was sweet with the breath of many apple orchards and the meadows sloped away in the distance to horizon mists of pearl and purple; while
Can I have some of those pearl beads off the old pincushion in the garret to make myself a ring?
Afar in the southwest was the great shimmering, pearl-like sparkle of an evening star in a sky that was pale golden and ethereal rose over gleaming white spaces and dark glens of spruce.
Lawrence Gulf seemed to rim in the splendor like a huge bowl of pearl and sapphire brimmed with wine and fire.
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