pearl

1. transitive verb

2. 1 :  to set or adorn with pearls

3. 2 :  to sprinkle or bead with pearly drops

4. 3 :  to form into small round grains

5. 4 :  to give a pearly color or luster to

6. intransitive verb

7. 1 :  to form drops or beads like pearls

8. 2 :  to fish or search for pearls

1. 1a :  of, relating to, or resembling pearlb :  made of or adorned with pearls

2. 2 :  having medium-sized grains pearl barley

British

1. :  picot

1. 1 river about 410 miles (660 kilometers) long in southern Mississippi flowing south into the Gulf of Mexico

2. 2 — see zhu

1. 1 :  a smooth rounded shiny usually white body that is formed within the shell of some mollusks (as oysters) usually around an irritating particle which has gotten into the shell

2. 2 :  mother-of-pearl

3. 3 :  something like a pearl in shape, color, or value

1. 1:  perle

2. 2:  one of the rounded concentric masses of squamous epithelial cells characteristic of certain tumors

3. 3:  a miliary leproma of the iris

4. 4:  a rounded abnormal mass of enamel on a tooth