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pure; perfect; pellucid; -- used of gems and also figuratively, because the most perfect jewels are found in the East. "Pearls round and orient." Jer. Taylor. "Orient gems." Wordsworth. "Orient liquor in a crystal glass." Milton.

A socket or bezel holding a precious stone; hence, a jewel or ornament worn on the person. A precious stone in a rich ouche. Sir T. Elyot. Your brooches, pearls, and ouches. Shak.

as, an outward garment or layer. Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. Cor. iv. 16.

e of anything; as, to look over accounts, or a stock of goods; a dress covered over with jewels.

- applied to a style of sewing, or to a seam, in which two edges, usually selvedges, are sewed together by passing each stitch over both.

pass over; to omit; to overlook; to disregard. All the beauties of the East He slightly viewed and slightly overpassed. Milton.

A kind of moccasin, having the edges of the sole turned up and sewed to the upper. Knight.

ed in commemoration of our Savior's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, when the multitude strewed palm branches in the way.

-- Optical parallax, the apparent displacement in position undergone by an object when viewed by either eye singly. Brande & C. -- Parallax of the cross wires (of an optical instrument), their apparent displacement when the eye changes its position, caused by their not being exactly in the focus of the object glass.…

Lace, gimp, braid etc., sewed on a garment. Sir W. Scott.

A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an old garment to cover a hole. Patches set upon a little breach. Shak.

Work composed of pieces sewed together, esp. pieces of various colors and figures; hence, anything put together of incongruous or ill-adapted parts; something irregularly clumsily composed; a thing putched up. Swift.

arl. Pearls which are round, or nearly round, and of fine luster, are highly esteemed as jewels, and compare in value with the precious stones.

meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis). Peep show, a small show, or object exhibited, which is viewed through an orifice or a magnifying glass. -- Peep-o'-day boys, the Irish insurgents of 1784; -- so called from their visiting the house of the loyal Irish at day break in search of arms. [Cant]

ands of five persons; five joint rulers. P. Fletcher. "The pentarchy of the senses." A. Brewer.

ble curvature corresponding to that of the eye, to increase the distinctness of objects viewed obliquely.

Precious stones; jewels. [Obs.] [Written also perre, perrye, etc.] Chaucer.

A glass through which objects are viewed. [Obs.] "Not a perspective, but a mirror." Sir T. Browne.

d outlines of objects, so as to represent them in their proper geometrical relations as viewed from some one point.

The pewee. [Written also peevit, peewit, pewet.]