Something precious.
A light-colored tern.
A fish allied to the turbot; the brill.
A whitish speck or film on the eye.
A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing liquid for e.g. medicinal application.
Nacre, or mother-of-pearl.
One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler.
A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Round lustrous pearls are used in jewellery.
A fringe or border.
A valuable little nugget of information; especially, an aphorism or tip that is operationally useful for decision-making.
The clitoris.
To cause to resemble pearls in shape; to make into small round grains.
To cause to resemble pearls in lustre or iridescence.
To resemble pearl or pearls.
To sink the nose of one's surfboard into the water, often on takeoff.
To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl.
Of the nose of the surfboard: to sink in this manner.
To hunt for pearls
Anything that is reborn after apparently being destroyed.
A Greek silver coin used briefly from 1828 to 1832, divided into 100 lepta.
A mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes.
A mythological Chinese chimerical bird whose physical body symbolizes the six celestial bodies; a fenghuang.
To transfer assets from one company to another to dodge liability