impearling

Verb

impearl (third-person singular simple present impearls, present participle impearling, simple past and past participle impearled)

1. (poetic, transitive) To form into pearls, or make pearly.
   • Virgins of equall birth, [...] / Shall draw thy picture, and record thy life; / One ſhall enſphere thine eyes, another ſhall / Impearl thy teeth[,] a third thy white and ſmall / Hand ſhall beſnow, a fourth incarnadine / Thy roſie cheek, [...]1640 (first publication), Thomas Carew, “Obsequies to the Lady Anne Hay”, in Poems, with a Maske, […], 3rd edition, London: […] H[umphrey] M[oseley] and are to be sold by J[ohn] Martin, […]...
2. (poetic, transitive) To decorate as if with pearls.
   • The Devvs of the Morning impearl every Thorn, and ſcatter Diamonds on the verdant Mantle of the Earth.1722 October 20 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Alexander Pope, “To the Same [Letter to the Honourable Robert Digby, from Mr. Pope]”, in Mr Pope’s Literary Correspondence for Thirty Years; from...