impearl

American  

[im-purl] / ɪmˈpɜrl /

verb (used with object)

1. to form into drops resembling pearls.

2. to adorn with pearls or pearllike drops.

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impearl British  

/ ɪmˈpɜːl /

verb

1. to adorn with pearls

2. to form into pearl-like shapes or drops

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Other Word Forms

• unimpearled adjective

Etymology

Origin of impearl

1580–90; im- ¹ + pearl; compare French emperler

Example Sentences

Impearl, im-pėrl′, v.t. to adorn with or as with pearls: to make like pearls.

From Project Gutenberg

Troubles may assail, But she will guide him by her lips impearl'd.

From Project Gutenberg

Not equal beauties gild the lucid west With parting beams o'er all profusely drest, Not lovelier colors paint the vernal dawn, When Orient dews impearl th' enamelled lawn, Than in its waves in bright suffusion flow, That now with gold empyreal seem to glow; Now in pellucid sapphires meet the view, And emulate the soft celestial hue; Now beams a flaming crimson on the eye, And now assume the purple's deeper dye.

From Project Gutenberg

The moon hangs low, her golden orb impearl'd In a sweet iris of delicious light, That leaves the eye in doubt, as swelling die Round trills of music on the raptur'd ear, Where it doth fade in blue, or softly quicken.

From Project Gutenberg

I have invested her with loveliness More pure than beings of the earth assume, And Memory calls her beauteous image back From the forgotten things of distant years, Warm, eloquent, and holy, as the balm Of flow'rs impearl'd with dew, which summer skies Diffuse around—I mark the marble brow Of polish'd symmetry, the eyes more blue Than violets in their vernal bloom, the neck Swanlike, and moulded with ethereal grace; And feel their magic influence on my mind.

From Project Gutenberg