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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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1,499 words match “PEAR”

vated in many varieties in temperate climates; also, the tree which bears this fruit. See Pear family, below. Pear blight.

Of the form of a pear.

PEARL n. 16 definitions

To fringe; to border. [Obs.] See Purl. Pearl stitch. See Purl stitch, under Purl.

Having a pearly speck in the eye; afflicted with the cataract.

Resembling pearl or mother-of-pearl; pearly in quality or appearance.

A white amorphous or granular substance which consists principally of potassium carbonate, and has a strong alkaline reaction. It is obtained by lixiviating wood ashes, and evaporating the lye, and has been an important source of potassium compounds. It is used in making soap, glass, etc.

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

PEARLINS; PEARLINGS n.

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

PEARLITE; PEARLSTONE n.

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.

PEARLY a. 2 definitions

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).

ANCHOVY PEAR n.

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

APPEAR v. 6 definitions

in sight; to be in view; to become visible. And God . . . said, Let . . . the dry land appear. Gen. i. 9.

APPEARANCE n. 7 definitions

The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye; as, his sudden appearance surprised me.

One who appears. Sir T. Browne.

APPEARINGLY adv.

Apparently. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

CHOKE PEAR n. 2 definitions

A kind of pear that has a rough, astringent taste, and is swallowed with difficulty, or which contracts the mucous membrane of the mouth.