impearl

From im- +‎ pearl.

• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l

impearl (third-person singular simple present impearls, present participle impearling, simple past and past participle impearled)

1. (transitive, poetic) To form into pearls, or make pearly.
   • 1640 (first publication), Thomas Carew, “Obsequies to the Lady Anne Hay”, in Poems, with a Maske, […], 3rd edition, London: […] H[umphrey] M[oseley] and are to be sold by J[ohn] Martin, […], published 1651, →OCLC, page 91:

     Virgins of equall birth, [...] / Shall draw thy picture, and record thy life; / One ſhall enſphere thine eyes, another ſhall / Impearl thy teeth[,] a third thy white and ſmall / Hand ſhall beſnow, a fourth incarnadine / Thy roſie cheek, [...]

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book CXLII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 743–744:

     Or Starrs of Morning, Dew-Drops, which the Sun / Impearls on every leaf and every flouer.

2. (transitive, poetic) To decorate as if with pearls.
   • 1722 October 21 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Alexander Pope, “To the Same [Letter to the Honourable Robert Digby, from Mr. Pope]”, in Mr Pope’s Literary Correspondence for Thirty Years; from 1704 to 1734. […], volume I, London: […] E[dmund] Curll, […], published 1735, →OCLC, page 142:

     The Devvs of the Morning impearl every Thorn, and ſcatter Diamonds on the verdant Mantle of the Earth.

   • 1850, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Future and Past”, in Poems. […], new edition, volume I, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 362:

     Then I, long tried / By natural ills, received the comfort fast, / While budding at thy sight, my pilgrim's staff / Gave out green leaves with morning dews impearled.

   • 1889, Mathilde Blind, “[Love in Exile. Song X.] ‘On Life’s Long Round’.”, in The Ascent of Man, London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, stanza 1, page 177:

     On life's long round by chance I found / A dell impearled with dew, / Where hyacinths, gushing from the ground, / Lent to the earth heaven's native hue / Of holy blue.

• “impearl”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Palmeri, impaler, lempira, palmier, premail, premial