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Polverine :: Polverine (n.) Glassmaker's ashes; a kind of potash or pearlash, brought from the Levant and Syria, -- used in the manufacture of fine glass..

Adularia :: Adularia (n.) A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone..

Maara Shell :: Maara shell () A large, pearly, spiral, marine shell (Turbo margaritaceus), from the Pacific Islands. It is used as an ornament..

Margaritiferous :: Margaritiferous (a.) Producing pearls.

Pearl :: Pearl (n.) A fringe or border.

Pearlstone :: Pearlstone (n.) 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..

Nacreous :: Nacreous (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, nacre; pearly..

Impearled :: Impearled (imp. & p. p.) of Impear.

Tetrabranchiata :: Tetrabranchiata (n. pl.) An order of Cephalopoda having four gills. Among living species it includes only the pearly nautilus. Numerous genera and species are found in the fossil state, such as Ammonites, Baculites, Orthoceras, etc..

Phlogopite :: Phlogopite (n.) A kind of mica having generally a peculiar bronze-red or copperlike color and a pearly luster. It is a silicate of aluminia, with magnesia, potash, and some fluorine. It is characteristic of crystalline limestone or dolomite and serpentine. See Mica..

East :: East (n.) The eastern parts of the earth; the regions or countries which lie east of Europe; the orient. In this indefinite sense, the word is applied to Asia Minor, Syria, Chaldea, Persia, India, China, etc.; as, the riches of the East; the diamonds and pearls of the East; the kings of the East..

Discoid :: Discoid (a.) Having the form of a disk, as those univalve shells which have the whorls in one plane, so as to form a disk, as the pearly nautilus..

Abalone :: Abalone (n.) A univalve mollusk of the genus Haliotis. The shell is lined with mother-of-pearl, and used for ornamental purposes; the sea-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks..

Stile :: Stilbite (n.) A common mineral of the zeolite family, a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime, usually occurring in sheaflike aggregations of crystals, also in radiated masses. It is of a white or yellowish color, with pearly luster on the cleavage surface. Called also desmine..

Pearl :: Pearl (n.) Nacre, or mother-of-pearl..

Ehlite :: Ehlite (n.) A mineral of a green color and pearly luster; a hydrous phosphate of copper.

Phillygenin :: Phillygenin (n.) A pearly crystalline substance obtained by the decomposition of phillyrin.

Nacre :: Nacre (n.) A pearly substance which lines the interior of many shells, and is most perfect in the mother-of-pearl. [Written also nacker and naker.] See Pearl, and Mother-of-pearl..

Margarite :: Margarite (n.) A mineral related to the micas, but low in silica and yielding brittle folia with pearly luster..

Impearl :: Impearl (v. t.) To decorate as with pearls or with anything resembling pearls.

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