Pearlite
(Pearl"ite Pearl"stone`) n. (Min.) A glassy volcanic rock of a grayish color and pearly luster,
often having a spherulitic concretionary structure due to the curved cracks produced by contraction in
cooling. See Illust. under Perlitic.
Pearlwort
(Pearl"wort`) n. (Bot.) A name given to several species of Sagina, low and inconspicuous
herbs of the Chickweed family.
Pearly
(Pearl"y) a.
1. Containing pearls; abounding with, or yielding, pearls; as, pearly shells. Milton.
2. Resembling pearl or pearls; clear; pure; transparent; iridescent; as, the pearly dew or flood.
Pearmain
(Pear"main) n. (Bot.) The name of several kinds of apples; as, the blue pearmain, winter
pearmain, and red pearmain.
Pear-shaped
(Pear"-shaped`) a. Of the form of a pear.
Peart
(Peart) a. [A variant of pert, a.] Active; lively; brisk; smart; — often applied to convalescents; as,
she is quite peart to-day. [O. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.]
There was a tricksy girl, I wot, albeit clad in gray,
As peart as bird, as straight as bolt, as fresh as flowers
in May.
Warner Peasant
(Peas"ant) n. [OF. païsant (the i being perh. due to confusion with the p. pr. of verbs), païsan,
F. paysan, fr. OF. & F. pays country, fr. L. pagus the country. See Pagan.] A countryman; a rustic; especially,
one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries.
Syn. — Countryman; rustic; swain; hind.
Peasant
(Peas"ant), a. Rustic, rural. Spenser.
Peasantlike
(Peas"ant*like`) a. Rude; clownish; illiterate.
Peasantly
(Peas"ant*ly), a. Peasantlike. [Obs.] Milton.
Peasantry
(Peas"ant*ry) n.
1. Peasants, collectively; the body of rustics. "A bold peasantry." Goldsmith.
2. Rusticity; coarseness. [Obs.] p. Butler.
Peascod
(Peas"cod`) n. The legume or pericarp, or the pod, of the pea.
Pease
(Pease) n.; obs.pl. Peases Peasen [See Pea.]
1. A pea. [Obs.] "A peose." "Bread . . . of beans and of peses." Piers Plowman.
2. A plural form of Pea. See the Note under Pea.
