pearledadj.1
/pəːld/, U.S. /pərld/ 1. † b. Containing or yielding pearls. Obsolete.
a. Set, decorated, or encrusted with pearls or mother-of-pearl; made of pearl or mother-of-pearl; (also) wearing pearls. Also figurative.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > pearl > [adjective] > made of or furnished with
pearleda1393
impearled1597
pearly1605
baccated1731
bepearled1863
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. 2510 (MED) Many a perled garnement Embroudred was ayein the dai.
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) iv. 576 (MED) What auailed his triumphes or his bies, Crownys of gold & perlid fressh tunycles?
a1568 Wald my gud Ladye that I Luif 43 in Bannatyne Poems 658 With peirlit prenis of pacience, For hir wirschop to weir.
1637 J. Milton Comus 29 The water Nymphs..Held up their pearled wrists and tooke her in.
a1689 W. Cleland Coll. Poems (1697) 21 Some with great cocks on their hats, Pearl'd sleeves, and lac'd gravats.
1779 H. Downman Lucius Junius Brutus iii. i. 50 She serene, throned in her pearled car Sail'd in full state along.
1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 92 Within some pearled and coral cave.
1855 C. Kingsley Heroes (1868) iii. 31 Galatea..in her car of pearled shells.
1929 Speculum 4 421 The pearled bands that follow the outline of St Michael's legs.
1991 Parl. Affairs 44 446 We saw her [sc. Mrs. Thatcher] picking up litter, hard-hatted on a crane, white-coated in a factory, pearled like the Queen at the bedside of disaster victims.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > pearl > [adjective] > containing, yielding, or abounding in
pearled1601
pearly1619
margaritiferous1656
1601 R. Dolman tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. III. 429 This pearled fish [Fr. ce poisson emperlé] maintaineth the kinde thereof by the egs which it breedeth.
1619 T. Milles tr. P. Mexia et al. Αρχαιο-πλουτος 976/2 Taking pearled Oysters.
1699 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 21 182 By dissipating of vast quantities of Spirits, and by great Discharges of Humidity, they may and really do such Mischief, that can neither be avoided nor repaired by all our Medicines, or Pearled Draughts.
a. Of the eye: having a film or cataract on the surface. Obsolete. rare.
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a1500 (a1450) tr. Secreta Secret. (Ashm. 396) (1977) 98 Eyen webbed or perled [L. caligine obsiti], þei ben lerned with bad craftes; þei ben vntrew and intemperat.
1634 W. Lathum Phyala Lachrymarum 34 Hee, whose one eye perled is, and bleere, Seemes blest to him, who can at all not see.
b. Covered with a pearly scurf. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [adjective] > of disease: scurfy or scabby > afflicted with
reofeOE
scabbed1338
scalled1340
crustyc1400
roynishc1400
roinousc1450
leprous?1457
scurfy1483
scabby1526
scurvya1529
shurvya1529
scald1529
scally1530
escharous1543
skalfering1561
scalded1568
morphewed1598
scaldy1598
scall?1602
pearled1627
scurfed1646
scruffy1660
reefy1684
porriginous1778
lepric1855
dandruffy1858
farreous1884
peeling1893
1627 S. Ward Woe to Drunkards 6 To whom are all kinds of diseases, deformities, pearled faces, if not to drunkards?
3. Chiefly poetic. Formed into pearl-like drops; sprinkled with dew, tears, etc.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of dripping or falling in drops > [adjective] > formed into or sprinkled with drops
pearled1568
1568 W. Dunbar Goldyn Targe l. 14 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 252 The perlit [1508 Chepman & Myllar perly] droppis schuke in siluer schouris.
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cx. 15 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 179 As thickly sett..As pearled plaine with dropps is wett.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 451 To pearl'd Auroras Saffron-coloured Bed.
1633 P. Fletcher Piscatorie Eclogs vii. i. 43 in Purple Island Her weeping eyes in pearled dew she steeps.
1653 Duchess of Newcastle Poems & Fancies sig. D4 A pearled dew lies on the ground.
1753 T. Warton Ode Approach of Summer 161 From pearled bush The sunny-sparkling drop I brush.
1792 S. Whyte Poems (ed. 2) 87 She..stands, drooping and pale, Like the pearl'd rose-bud shivering at the gale.
1818 J. Keats Endymion iv. 172 The kings of Inde their jewel-sceptres vail, And from their treasures scatter pearled hail.
1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. v. 182 That lay of pearled tears is the wide-famed Lament.
1908 C. M. Doughty Adam Cast Forth ii. 18 I have not His pearled dew seen, since we driven Were from the Eden!
1993 Rave (Brisbane) 16–22 June 9/1 It's about 8.30 on a Monday night, pearled beads of rain dapple in the light.
4. Of a substance: formed into small rounded grains. pearled barley n. = pearl barley n.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > granular texture > [adjective] > formed into granules
corned1577
pearled1600
granulated1694
sanded1897
the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [adjective] > spherical or globular > very small sphere or pellet > formed into
pearled1600
beaded1609
pelleted1943
pelletized1948
1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xviii. xxiv. 320 The Manna on each leafe did pearled lie.
1652 R. Pemell Tractatus de Simplicium Medicamentorum Facultatibus i. sig. Hh4v We have of late yeares a Berly called Pearl'd Barloy, and is much in use for the forementioned Diseases.
1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana i. x. 626/1 This Pearled Nitre is good in all hot Diseases.
1750 W. Ellis Country Housewife's Family Compan. 216 Boil a Quarter of a Pound of pearled Barley till it begins to break.
1772 Antisiphylitic 26 Take, an uonce [sic], i.e. about a large handful, of Pearled Barley, Oatmeal, or Crumbs of Bread.
1862 M. D. Colt Went to Kansas ix. 129 Let us have some corn starch, farina, a few dates, and a little pearled barley.
1885 R. Bridges Eros & Psyche xi. xviii. 138 A honey-cake Of pearlèd barley mixed and hydromel.
1912 W. Tibbles Foods xviii. 473 Only hulled or pearled rice enters the British markets.
1990 Boston Globe (Nexis) 14 Jan. 49 Consider the relationship between whole and pearled barley to be something like that of whole-wheat flour and white flour.
5. Cookery. Of sugar or syrup boiled for confectionery: brought to the degree called ‘pearl’. See pearl n.1 15.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparing confectionery > [adjective] > stages in boiling syrup
candy higha1675
pearled1696
softball1894
1696 J. Pechey tr. T. Sydenham Whole Wks. i. iv. 26 Add to the strained liquor a sufficient quantity of pearled sugar [L. sacchari perlati], to make it taste pleasantly.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique (at cited word) These boilings are perform'd by Degrees... Sugar may be boil'd till it becomes Smooth, Pearled, Blown, Feather'd, Crack'd and Caramel.
?1790 R. Abbot Housekeeper's Valuable Present 22 Boil the syrup till it becomes ropy or pearled.
1889 R. Wells Bread & Biscuit Baker's & Sugar Boiler's Assistant xiv. 88 Add to the syrup a little clarified sugar and boil it to the degree called ‘pearled’.
1995 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 17 Aug. 4 d We import the pearled sugar from Belgium.
6. Resembling a pearl in colour or lustre; nacreous; pearly.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > grey or greyness > [adjective] > pearl grey
pearl-coloured1604
pearl shell1614
pearl1688
pearled1699
pearly?1790
pearl-hued1843
pearlish1885
the world > matter > light > reflection > [adjective] > lustrous or shining with reflected light > of or like precious stones, metals, or fabrics > with a pearly lustre
pearly1596
pearled1699
perlaceous1777
margaritaceous1822
1699 G. London & H. Wise J. de la Quintinie's Compl. Gard'ner (ed. 2) II. vi. 193 The red, and pearled, or white sort, called in English, Currans, produce Bunches, which are ripe in July.
1778 H. Brooke Impostor iii. v, in Poems & Plays II. 52 The armed hand may stroak the cockatrice, Admire her speckled crest, and pearled scale.
1797 Encycl. Brit. X. 76/2 It is in its [sc. the slug's] head and back that the snail-stone is found; which is a small pearled and sandy stone, of the nature of lime stones.
1868 C. Kingsley in Good Words Jan. 23/1 Red sun, blue sky, white snow, and pearled ice.
1993 A. R. Siddons Hill Towns (1994) v. 94 At first I thought she was an albino, she was so pale. Her face and hair were almost the same pearled white, and she wore white, too.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
pearledadj.2
/pəːld/, U.S. /pərld/, Scottish English /pɛrld/ Originally Scottish.
Trimmed with pearl (pearl n.3); made with a series of minute loops or twists, esp. as an ornamental edging.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > ornamental textiles > ornamental trimmings > [adjective] > lace > edged with
pearled1575
lace-edged1773
lace-trimmed1819
1575 Edinb. Test. IV. f. 42, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Perlit Tua parlit couiringis.
1643 Edinb. Test. LX. f. 205, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Perlit Fyve pair pearled hand cuffis.
c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1851) 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.
1720 A. Pennecuik Streams from Helicon (ed. 2) i. 65 A pearled Cross-Cloth, a woven Belt.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Pearled, having a border of lace.
1865 F. B. Palliser Hist. Lace vi. 82 Fig. 44 has the pearled ground.
1886 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. V. ii Pearled, having a border of or trimmed with pearl-edge.
1998 J C Penney Home Coll. Catal. 14 Window coverings. 3″ headers. Crochet trim and flowers with pearled tape.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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