pears hell (par shel)

A shell of the genus Pyrula or family Pyrulidæ; a fig-shell. pear-slug (par's lug), n. The slimy larva of Selandria cerasi, a saw-fly of the family Tenthre dinidæ, which lays its eggs in the leaves of the pear and cherry. peart (pērt), a. [A dial. form of pert1.] Lively; smart; chipper; feeling well; in good spirits. [Obsolete or prov. Eng. and U. S.] Go dinette , a pretty peart la e, a loving or lovely girl. Cotgrave. Give your play-gull a stoole, and my lady her foole, And her usher potatoes and marrow; But your poet were he dead, set a pot on his head, And he rises as peart as a sparrow. Brit. Bibl., ii. 167. ( Hall i well. ) Quick she had always been, and peart (as we say on Exmoor), and gifted with a leap of thought too swift for me to follow. R. D. Black more , Lorna Doone, xlv. peartly (pērt'li), adv . In a peart manner. Then, as a nimble squirr ill from the wood, Ranging the hedges for his filberd food, Sits peartly on a bough his browne nuts cracking. W. Browne, Britannia's Pastorals, p. 135. ( Hall i well .)