pearlouse (par lous)

The flea-louse or jump (perl'ō"pal), n. Same as cacholong . ing plant-louse of the pear, Psylla pyri, an insect which infests the buds in Europe and bearing.-4. Dotted, flecked, or spangled as if with pearls; pearled.-5. Clear; pure; glittering; translucent or transparent, as a color: as, pearly white.-6. In the technique of the pianoforte, noting a touch that produces a clear, round, sweet tone, or noting a tone thus char acterized.-Pearly ark, a bivalve of the family Nucu lidæ; a nutshell. - Pearly bodies. Same as epithelial pearls (which see, under pearl ). - Pearly gaper, a bivalve of the family Pholadomyidæ. - Pearly nautilus. See nautilus. - Pearly tubercle, in pathol., same as grutum. - Pearly tumor. Same as pearl - tumor, 2. pearmain (parman), n. [Early mod. E. also peare maine (simulating pearl ); earlier per main, pear"; cf. " poire à main, a kind of great pear, which weighs almost a par. per magnus , very large, neut. permag- num , a very large thing, per- , very, + magnus , pound" (Cotgrave); ap great, large: see per- and main2.] A name of several excellent varieties of apple. The peare- maine , which to France long ere to us was knowne. Drayton, Polyolbion, xviii. 675. A dealer in America. See cut under Psylla. A pearl-bear pearmonger (par'mung"ger), n. pearl-oyster (pėrl'ois"tėr), п. ing bivalve mollusk of the family Aviculidæ, pears. as Meleagrina mar gar it if era of Indian seas, and other species. See cut under Meleagrina. Pert as a pear - monger I'd be If Molly were but kind. Gay, New Song of New Similes. pearl-plant (pėrl'plant), n. The gromwell and pea-roe (pē'rō), n. Same as pea - spawn. corn-gromwell, Lithospermum of ficin ale and L. pearselt, v. An obsolete form of pierce. arvense: so called on account of their hard pearse2t, v. t. An obsolete form of parse1. shining nutlets.