Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To form (something) into pearls.
- transitive verb To adorn with or as if with pearls.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To form into pearls or the resemblance of pearls.
- To decorate with or as if with pearls.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb Poetic To form into pearls, or into that which resembles pearls.
- transitive verb Poetic To decorate as with pearls or with anything resembling pearls.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb poetic To form into
pearls , or makepearly . - verb poetic To decorate as if with pearls.
Etymologies
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im- + pearl
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Examples
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Then I turned my attention to the word before ‘impearl’, which is ‘impeach’.
98 Reasons For Blogging: 3 - 6 Kirsty 2006
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Then I turned my attention to the word before ‘impearl’, which is ‘impeach’.
Archive 2006-10-01 Kirsty 2006
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The peculiar circumstance which had led her to choose the old town of Sorrento for her residence, in preference to any of the beautiful villages which impearl that fertile plain, was the existence there of
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various
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Constant as crystal dews impearl the lawn, "etc. -- _Ibid_.
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886
bestiary commented on the word impearl
1. to form into drops resembling pearls.
2. to adorn with pearls or pearllike drops.
July 24, 2008