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▪ I. pearled, ppl. a.1
(pɜːld, poet. ˈpɜːlɪd)
[f. pearl n.1 and v.1 + -ed.]
1. Furnished, set, or adorned with pearls; composed of or fitted with pearl or nacre. Chiefly poet.
1390Gower Conf. I. 126 Many a perled garnement Embroudred was ayein the dai. a1568Wald my gud Ladye that I luif 43 in Bannatyne Poems 658 With peirlit prenis of pacience, For hir wirschop to weir. 1634Milton Comus 834 The water Nymphs..Held up their pearled wrists and took her in. 1839Bailey Festus viii. (1852) 94 Within some pearled and coral cave. 1855Kingsley Heroes iii. (1868) 31 Galatea..in her car of pearled shells.
†b. Containing or yielding pearls. Obs.
1601Dolman La Primaud. Fr. Acad. iii. (1618) 853 This pearled fish maintaineth the kinde thereof by the egges which it breedeth. 1619T. Milles tr. Mexia's, etc. Treas. Anc. & Mod. T. II. 976/2 Taking pearled Oysters.
2. Formed into pearly drops; dew-besprinkled.
c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. cx. ii, As thickly sett..As pearled plaine with dropps is wett. 1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. ii. iii. Colonies 427 To pearl'd Auroras saffron colour'd bed. 1633P. Fletcher Pisc. Ecl. vii. 1 Her weeping eyes in pearled dew she steeps. 1753Warton Ode Approach Summer 161 From pearled bush The sunny-sparkling drop I brush. 1865M. Arnold Ess. Crit. v. (1875) 219 That lay of pearled tears is the wide-famed Lament.
3. Formed into small rounded grains; granulated.
1600Fairfax Tasso xviii. xxiv, The Manna on each leafe did pearled lie. 1694Salmon Bate's Dispens. (1713) 476/2 This pearled Nitre is good in all hot Diseases. 1885–94R. Bridges Eros & Psyche Jan. xviii, A honey-cake Of pearlèd barley mix'd with hydromel.
4. In boiling of sugar for confectionery: Brought to the degree called ‘pearl’; see quots. and pearl n.1 13.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Pearled Boiling of Sugar (among Confectioners) is when after having dipt the tip of one's Fore-finger into the boiling Sugar and applied it to the Thumb, a small Thread or String continues sticking to both... This degree of Boiling may also be known, by a kind of round Pearls that arise on the top of the Liquor. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Sugar. 1741 Compl. Fam.-Piece i. i. 92 Boil four Pounds of Sugar till it be pearled.
5. Like pearl in colour or lustre; pearly.
1719London & Wise Compl. Gard. 209 The red, and pearled, or white sort, called in English, Currans, produce Bunches, which are ripe in July. 1868Kingsley Christmas Day 5 Red sun, blue sky, white snow, and pearled ice.
†6. Covered with a pearly scurf. Obs.
1627S. Ward Woe to Drunkards 6 To whom are all kinds of diseases, deformities, pearled faces, if not to drunkards?
▪ II. pearled, ppl. a.2
[Cf. pearl n.4]
‘Having a border of lace; ornamented with a worked border’ (Jamieson 1825).
a1670Spalding Troub. Chas. I (Spald. Cl.) II. 388 Haddoche prepairit him self noblie for death... He had on his heid ane white perllit mvtche. He had no cot, bot ane pair of blak breikis. 1886Cassell's Encycl. Dict., Pearled, having a border of or trimmed with pearl-edge. |