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v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Appeared p. pr. & vb. n. Appearing. ] [ OE. apperen, aperen, OF. aparoir, F. apparoir, fr. L. appar&unr_;re to appear + par&unr_;reto come forth, to be visible; prob. from the same root as par&unr_;re to produce. Cf. Apparent, Parent, Peer, v. i. ] 1. To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible. [ 1913 Webster ]

And God . . . said, Let . . . the dry land appear. Gen. i. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To come before the public; as, a great writer appeared at that time. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, or the like; to present one's self as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried. [ 1913 Webster ]

We must all appear before the judgment seat. 2 Cor. v. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

One ruffian escaped because no prosecutor dared to appear. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To become visible to the apprehension of the mind; to be known as a subject of observation or comprehension, or as a thing proved; to be obvious or manifest. [ 1913 Webster ]

It doth not yet appear what we shall be. 1 John iii. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

Of their vain contest appeared no end. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look. [ 1913 Webster ]

They disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Matt. vi. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To seem; look. See Seem. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Appearance. [ Obs. ] J. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. apparence, L. apparentia, fr. apparere. See Appear. ] 1. The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye; as, his sudden appearance surprised me. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A thing seed; a phenomenon; a phase; an apparition; as, an appearance in the sky. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Personal presence; exhibition of the person; look; aspect; mien. [ 1913 Webster ]

And now am come to see . . .
It thy appearance answer loud report. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Semblance, or apparent likeness; external show. pl. Outward signs, or circumstances, fitted to make a particular impression or to determine the judgment as to the character of a person or a thing, an act or a state; as, appearances are against him. [ 1913 Webster ]

There was upon the tabernacle, as it were, the appearance of fire. Num. ix. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

For man looketh on the outward appearance. 1 Sam. xvi. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

Judge not according to the appearance. John. vii. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character; as, a person makes his appearance as an historian, an artist, or an orator. [ 1913 Webster ]

Will he now retire,
After appearance, and again prolong
Our expectation? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Probability; likelihood. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

There is that which hath no appearance. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Law) The coming into court of either of the parties; the being present in court; the coming into court of a party summoned in an action, either by himself or by his attorney, expressed by a formal entry by the proper officer to that effect; the act or proceeding by which a party proceeded against places himself before the court, and submits to its jurisdiction. Burrill. Bouvier. Daniell. [ 1913 Webster ]

To put in an appearance, to be present; to appear in person. --
To save appearances, to preserve a fair outward show. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Coming; arrival; presence; semblance; pretense; air; look; manner; mien; figure; aspect. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who appears. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Apparently. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A kind of pear that has a rough, astringent taste, and is swallowed with difficulty, or which contracts the mucous membrane of the mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A sarcasm by which one is put to silence; anything that can not be answered. [ Low ] S. Richardson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ F. comparoir, L. comparēre; com- + parēre to appear. ] 1. To appear. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) To appear in court personally or by attorney. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Disappeared p. pr. & vb. n. Disappearing. ] 1. To cease to appear or to be perceived; to pass from view, gradually or suddenly; to vanish; to be no longer seen; as, darkness disappears at the approach of light; a ship disappears as she sails from port. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cease to be or exist; as, the epidemic has disappeared. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of disappearing; cessation of appearance; removal from sight; vanishing. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. pr. & vb. n. of Disappear.

Disappearing carriage (Ordnance), a carriage for heavy coast guns on which the gun is raised above the parapet for firing and upon discharge is lowered behind the parapet for protection. The standard type of disappearing carriage in the coast artillery of the United States army is the Buffington-Crozier carriage, in which the gun trunnions are secured at the upper and after ends of a pair of heavy levers, at the lower ends of which is attached a counterweight of lead. The levers are pivoted at their middle points, which are, with the top carriage, permitted restrained motion along the slightly inclined chassis rails. The counterweight is held in place by a pawl and ratchet. When the gun is loaded the pawl is released and the counterweight sinks, raising the gun to the firing position above the parapet. The recoil following the discharge returns the gun to the loading position, the counterweight rising until the pawl engages the ratchet. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A spear with barbed forks for spearing eels. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. em- + pearl. Cf. Impearl. ] To form like pearls; to decorate with, or as with, pearls; to impearl. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Spangled with ice. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mounting up in icy-pearled car. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Impearled p. pr. & vb. n. Impearling. ] [ Pref. im- in + pearl: cf. F. emperler. ] 1. To form into pearls, or into that which resembles pearls. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Dewdrops which the sun
Impearls on every leaf and every flower. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To decorate as with pearls or with anything resembling pearls. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

With morning dews impearled. Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

The dews of the morning impearl every thorn. R. Digby. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having ears which droop or hang down; as, a lop-eared hound. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) The hard, iridescent, pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Default of appearance, as in court, to prosecute or defend; failure to appear. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. pere, AS. peru, L. pirum: cf. F. poire. Cf. Perry. ] (Bot.) The fleshy pome, or fruit, of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus communis), cultivated in many varieties in temperate climates; also, the tree which bears this fruit. See Pear family, below. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pear blight. (a) (Bot.) A name of two distinct diseases of pear trees, both causing a destruction of the branches, viz., that caused by a minute insect (Xyleborus pyri), and that caused by the freezing of the sap in winter. A. J. Downing. (b) (Zool.) A very small beetle (Xyleborus pyri) whose larvæ bore in the twigs of pear trees and cause them to wither. --
Pear family (Bot.), a suborder of rosaceous plants (Pomeæ), characterized by the calyx tube becoming fleshy in fruit, and, combined with the ovaries, forming a pome. It includes the apple, pear, quince, service berry, and hawthorn. --
Pear gauge (Physics), a kind of gauge for measuring the exhaustion of an air-pump receiver; -- so called because consisting in part of a pear-shaped glass vessel. --
Pear shell (Zool.), any marine gastropod shell of the genus Pyrula, native of tropical seas; -- so called from the shape. --
Pear slug (Zool.), the larva of a sawfly which is very injurious to the foliage of the pear tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. [ Obs. ] See Perch. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl. Used also figuratively. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause to resemble pearls; to make into small round grains; as, to pearl barley. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To resemble pearl or pearls. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To dive or hunt for pearls; as, to go pearling. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A fringe or border. [ Obs. ] -- v. t. To fringe; to border. [ Obs. ] See Purl. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pearl stitch. See Purl stitch, under Purl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. perle, F. perle, LL. perla, perula, probably fr. (assumed) L. pirulo, dim. of L. pirum a pear. See Pear, and cf. Purl to mantle. ] 1. (Zool.) A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Pearls which are round, or nearly round, and of fine luster, are highly esteemed as jewels, and at one time compared in value with the precious stones. Since development of cultured pearls, the relative value has diminished somewhat, though the best pearls are still expensive, and natural pearls even more so. Artificial pearls may be made of various materials, including material similar to that of natural pearls; these are less expensive than natural or cultured pearls. See cultured pearl, below. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. Hence, figuratively, something resembling a pearl; something very precious. [ 1913 Webster ]

I see thee compassed with thy kingdom's pearl. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

And those pearls of dew she wears. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Nacre, or mother-of-pearl. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Zool.) A fish allied to the turbot; the brill. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Zool.) A light-colored tern. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Zool.) One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. A whitish speck or film on the eye. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing some liquid for medicinal application, as ether. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. (Print.) A size of type, between agate and diamond. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This line is printed in the type called pearl. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ground pearl. (Zool.) See under Ground. --
Pearl barley, kernels of barley, ground so as to form small, round grains. --
Pearl diver, one who dives for pearl oysters. --
Pearl edge, an edge of small loops on the side of some kinds of ribbon; also, a narrow kind of thread edging to be sewed on lace. --
Pearl eye, cataract. [ R. ] --
Pearl gray, a very pale and delicate blue-gray color. --
Pearl millet, Egyptian millet (Penicillaria spicata). --
Pearl moss. See Carrageen. --
Pearl moth (Zool.), any moth of the genus Margaritia; -- so called on account of its pearly color. --
Pearl oyster (Zool.), any one of several species of large tropical marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Meleagrina, or Margaritifera, found in the East Indies (especially at Ceylon), in the Persian Gulf, on the coast of Australia, and on the Pacific coast of America. Called also pearl shell, and pearl mussel. --
Pearl powder. See Pearl white, below. --
Pearl sago, sago in the form of small pearly grains. --
Pearl sinter (Min.), fiorite. --
Pearl spar (Min.), a crystallized variety of dolomite, having a pearly luster. --
Pearl white. (a) Basic bismuth nitrate, or bismuth subchloride; -- used chiefly as a cosmetic. (b) A variety of white lead blued with indigo or Berlin blue. --
cultured pearl, a pearl grown by a pearl oyster into which a round pellet has been placed, to serve as the seed for more predictable growth of the pearl. The pellet is usually made from mother-of-pearl, and additional layers of nacre are deposited onto the seed by the oyster. Such pearls, being more easily obtained than natural pearls from wild oysters, are less expensive. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to pearl or pearls; made of pearls, or of mother-of-pearl. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Resembling pearl or mother-of-pearl; pearly in quality or appearance.
Syn. -- iridescent, nacreous, opalescent, opaline, pearlaceous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A white amorphous or granular substance which consists principally of potassium carbonate, and has a strong alkaline reaction. It is obtained by lixiviating wood ashes, and evaporating the lye, and has been an important source of potassium compounds. It is used in making soap, glass, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A diver who searches for molluscs containing pearls; a pearl diver.
Syn. -- pearl diver. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

pos>adj. 1. Having an iridescent pearl-like surface, giving a play of lustrous rainbowlike colors; nacreous; pearlaceous.
Syn. -- iridescent, nacreous, opalescent, opaline, pearlaceous. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Having a pearly speck in the eye; afflicted with a cataract or cataracts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any fish whose scales yield a pearl-like pigment used in manufacturing artificial pearls, as the bleak, and whitebait. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. pl. [ Prob. a corruption of purflings. See Purfle. ] A kind of lace of silk or thread. [ Scot. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A name given to several species of Sagina, low and inconspicuous herbs of the Chickweed family. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Containing pearls; abounding with, or yielding, pearls; as, pearly shells. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Resembling pearl or pearls; clear; pure; transparent; iridescent; as, the pearly dew or flood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) an American everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea) having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly-white scarious involucres.
Syn. -- cottonweed, Anaphalis margaritacea. [ WordNet 1.5 +MW10 ]

adj. White like a pearl; very white.
Syn. -- pearly. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) The name of several kinds of apples; as, the blue pearmain, winter pearmain, and red pearmain. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the form of a pear. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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 (1592). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To appear again. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A second or new appearance; the act or state of appearing again. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) A pedunculated ascidian of the genus Boltonia. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Shakespeare or his works. [ Written also Shakespearian, Shakspearean, Shakspearian, Shaksperean, Shaksperian.etc. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To shoot into a long stem, as some plants. See Spire. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Speared p. pr. & vb. n. Spearing. ] To pierce with a spear; to kill with a spear; as, to spear a fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. spere, AS. spere; akin to D. & G. speer, OS. & OHS. sper, Icel. spjör, pl., Dan. spaer, L. sparus. ] 1. A long, pointed weapon, used in war and hunting, by thrusting or throwing; a weapon with a long shaft and a sharp head or blade; a lance. [ See Illust. of Spearhead. ] “A sharp ground spear.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Micah iv. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: A spearman. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A sharp-pointed instrument with barbs, used for stabbing fish and other animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A shoot, as of grass; a spire. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The feather of a horse. See Feather, n., 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod. [ 1913 Webster ]

Spear foot, the off hind foot of a horse. --
Spear grass. (Bot.) (a) The common reed. See Reed, n., 1. (b) meadow grass. See under Meadow. --
Spear hand, the hand in which a horseman holds a spear; the right hand. Crabb. --
Spear side, the male line of a family. Lowell. --
Spear thistle (Bot.), the common thistle (Cnicus lanceolatus). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who uses a spear; as, a spearer of fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) (a) A large and powerful fish (Tetrapturus albidus) related to the swordfish, but having scales and ventral fins. It is found on the American coast and the Mediterranean. (b) The carp sucker. [ 1913 Webster ]