pearl winning

Pearl-fishing. (The second element of this compound is borrowed from mining operations.) "The early pictures of pearl-winning in the East." London Standard. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; the external layer of the shell which is not nacreous, drinking-ve els of great brilliancy are made in the East, as they formerly were also in Europe. pearly-nereis, s . Zool.: Nereis mar gari tace a , a common species, brown above, with a beautiful iridescent under surface. pearly-underwing, s. Entom.: A European moth, Agrotis saucia . peär-main, peare-maine, s. (Fr.) A variety of apple. "Pearmain is an excellent and well-known fruit."-Mortimer: Husbandry.