Word Meanings - MOTHEROFPEARL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.

• Pearlings
  A kind of lace of silk or thread.
• Severally
  Separately; distinctly; apart from others; individually.
• Pearlite
  Alt. of Pearlstone
• Severalty
  A state of separation from the rest, or from all others; a holding by individual right.
• Pearlstone
  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.
• INTERNALCOMBUSTIONINTERNALCOMBUSTIONENGINE
  Designating, or pertaining to, any engine (called an Internal- combustion engine) in which the heat or pressure energy necessary to produce motion is developed in the engine cylinder, as by the explosion of a gas, and not in a separate chamber, as in a
• Internal
  Inward; interior; being within any limit or surface; inclosed; -- opposed to external; as, the internal parts of a body, or of the earth.
• Pearlwort
  A name given to several species of Sagina, low and inconspicuous herbs of the Chickweed family.
• PEARLEYED
  Having a pearly speck in the eye; afflicted with the cataract.
• Internality
  The state of being internal or within; interiority.
• PEARLINSPEARLINGS
  A kind of lace of silk or thread. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
• Internally
  Inwardly; within the enveloping surface, or the boundary of a thing; within the body; beneath the surface.
• PEARLITEPEARLSTONE
  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.
• Layering
  A propagating by layers.
• Riveret
  A rivulet.

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