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Size :: Size (n.) An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, -- used for ascertaining the size of pearls..

Chaplet :: Chaplet (n.) A small molding, carved into beads, pearls, olives, etc..

Potash :: Potash (n.) The impure potassium carbonate obtained by leaching wood ashes, either as a strong solution (lye), or as a white crystalline (pearlash)..

Nucula :: Nucula (n.) A genus of small marine bivalve shells, having a pearly interior..

Urinator :: Urinator (n.) One who dives under water in search of something, as for pearls; a diver..

Spherulite :: Spherulite (n.) A minute spherical crystalline body having a radiated structure, observed in some vitreous volcanic rocks, as obsidian and pearlstone..

Pearlite :: Pearlite (n.) Alt. of Pearlston.

Madreperl :: Madreperl (n.) Mother-of-pearl.

Icy-pearled :: Icy-pearled (a.) Spangled with ice.

Perlitic :: Perlitic (a.) Relating to or resembling perlite, or pearlstone; as, the perlitic structure of certain rocks. See Pearlite..

Perlaceous :: Perlaceous (a.) Pearly; resembling pearl.

Mother-of-pearl :: Mother-of-pearl (n.) The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl..

Pyrophyllite :: Pyrophyllite (n.) A mineral, usually of a white or greenish color and pearly luster, consisting chiefly of the hydrous silicate of alumina..

Pearl :: Pearl (v. i.) To give or hunt for pearls; as, to go pearling..

Impearl :: Impearl (v. t.) To form into pearls, or into that which resembles pearls..

Bdellium :: Bdellium (n.) An unidentified substance mentioned in the Bible (Gen. ii. 12, and Num. xi. 7), variously taken to be a gum, a precious stone, or pearls, or perhaps a kind of amber found in Arabia..

Margaritiferous :: Margaritiferous (a.) Producing pearls.

Include :: Include (v. t.) To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell..

Fierasfer :: Fierasfer (n.) A genus of small, slender fishes, remarkable for their habit of living as commensals in other animals. One species inhabits the gill cavity of the pearl oyster near Panama; another lives within an East Indian holothurian..

Tyrolite :: Tyrolite (n.) A translucent mineral of a green color and pearly or vitreous luster. It is a hydrous arseniate of copper.

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