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Any fish whose scales yield a pearl-like pigment used in manufacturing artificial pearls, as the bleak, and whitebait.

A kind of lace of silk or thread. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

A glassy volcanic rock of a grayish color and pearly luster, often having a spherulitic concretionary structure due to the curved cracks produced by contraction in cooling. See Illust. under Perlitic.

A name given to several species of Sagina, low and inconspicuous herbs of the Chickweed family.

Containing pearls; abounding with, or yielding, pearls; as, pearly shells. Milton.

The name of several kinds of apples; as, the blue pearmain, winter pearmain, and red pearmain.

Active; lively; brisk; smart; -- often applied to convalescents; as, she is quite peart to-day. [O. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.] There was a tricksy girl, I wot, albeit clad in gray, As peart as bird, as straight as bolt, as fresh as flowers in May. Warner (1592).

Of or pertaining to a nucleus; situated around a nucleus; as, the perinuclear protoplasm.

A solid unctuous material, of which candles are made.

Timid; easily frightened; chicken-hearted. Beau. & Fl.

Frank; sincere; artless. Milton. -- Plain"-heart`ed*ness, n.

Containing many nuclei.

To forearm. [R.]

To arrange beforehand.

Having erect, pointed ears; -- said of certain dogs. Thou prick-eared cur of Iceland. Shak.

Any contractile vessel of invertebrates which is not of the nature of a real heart, especially one of those pertaining to the excretory system.

Public-spirited. [R.]

A strong, durable, and elastic wood of a purplish color, obtained from several tropical American leguminous trees of the genus Copaifera (C. pubiflora, bracteata, and officinalis). Used for decorative veneering. See Copaiba.

To search again; to examine anew.

To appear again.