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Tested purity or value. [Obs.] With gold and pearl of rich assay. Spenser.

A genus of marine bivalves, having a pearly interior, allied to the pearl oyster; -- so called from a supposed resemblance of the typical species to a bird.

Set or adorned with pearls. [Obs.]

rbarian nations; foreign; -- often with reference to barbarous nations of east. "Barbaric pearl and gold." Milton.

he Bible (Gen. ii. 12, and Num. xi. 7), variously taken to be a gum, a precious stone, or pearls, or perhaps a kind of amber found in Arabia.

Having a blade or blades; as a two-bladed knife. Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass. Shak.

flowers, or twigs. The train whereof loose far behind her strayed, Branched with gold and pearl, most richly wrought. Spenser.

A rare zeolitic mineral occurring in white monoclinic crystals with pearly luster. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, baryta, and strontia.

ed to the turbot (Rhombus levis), much esteemed in England for food; -- called also bret, pearl, prill. See Bret.

A white, pearly mineral, occurring thin and foliated, like talc, and also fibrous; a native magnesium hydrate.

The weight by which precious stones and pearls are weighed.

A small molding, carved into beads, pearls, olives, etc.

of the size of a large squirrel, remarkable for its fine fur, which is very soft and of a pearly gray color. It is a native of Peru and Chili.

omplexioned or a ruddy-complexioned person. A flower is the best-complexioned grass, as a pearl is the best- colored clay. Fuller.

ayton. Along the crisped shades and bowers. Milton. The crisped brooks, Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold. Milton.

A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe.

hers under the sides, saying thus to them: Look, mother, how great a lubber doth yet wear pearls. Robynson (More's Utopia). To dig down, to undermine and cause to fall by digging; as, to dig down a wall. -- To dig from, out of, out, or up, to get out or obtain by digging; as, to dig coal from or out of a mine; to dig…

as those univalve shells which have the whorls in one plane, so as to form a disk, as the pearly nautilus. Discoid flower (Bot.), a compound flower, consisting of tubular florets only, as a tansy, lacking the rays which are seen in the daisy and sunflower.

foremost; to thrust the body under, or deeply into, water or other fluid. It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them. Whately.

One who, or that which, dives. Divers and fishers for pearls. Woodward.