pearled

Verb

pearl (third-person singular simple present pearls, present participle pearling, simple past and past participle pearled)

1. (figuratively, sometimes, transitive) To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl.
   • Syed Omar began to walk to the airport. Sweat pearled his tough brown skin, his fat bounced in rhythm.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 600
2. (transitive) To cause to resemble pearls in shape; to make into small round grains.
   • to pearl barley
3. (transitive) To cause to resemble pearls in lustre or iridescence.
   • A Teaching Company Scheme developing new technology for pearling light bulbs was established in October […]1993, New Scientist, volume 139, page 62
4. (intransitive) To resemble pearl or pearls.
5. (intransitive) To bead; to form droplets.
   • I'm left here with the memory of all their shining words, like drops of water pearling on the window-pane2007, Angela Patten, Reliquaries, Salmon Publishing, →ISBN, page 5
6. (intransitive) To hunt for pearls
   • to go pearling

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