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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).

A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries.

Rude; clownish; illiterate.

Peasantlike. [Obs.] Milton.

Peasants, collectively; the body of rustics. "A bold peasantry." Goldsmith.

The legume or pericarp, or the pod, of the pea.

A pea. [Obs.] "A peose." "Bread . . . of beans and of peses." Piers Plowman.

Pisolite.

The pewit, or lapwing.

here it is always more or less saturated with water. It is often dried and used for fuel. Peat bog, a bog containing peat; also, peat as it occurs in such places; peat moss. -- Peat moss. (a) The plants which, when decomposed, become peat.

Composed of peat; abounding in peat; resembling peat.

A cant hook having the end of its lever armed with a spike.

A West Indian fruit like the mango in taste, sometimes pickled; also, the tree (Grias cauliflora) bearing this fruit.

ble seed, a kind of pulse; -- so called from Angola in Western Africa. Called also pigeon pea and Congo pea.