Definition of "impearl"
impearl
verb
third-person singular simple present impearls, present participle impearling, simple past and past participle impearled
(transitive, poetic) To form into pearls, or make pearly.
Quotations
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, [...]
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, page 91
Or Starrs of Morning, Dew-Drops, which the Sun / Impearls on every leaf and every flouer.
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, […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, lines 743–744
(transitive, poetic) To decorate as if with pearls.
Quotations
The Dews of the Morning impearl every Thorn, and ſcatter Diamonds on the verdant Mantle of the Earth.
1722 October 10, Alexander Pope, “Letters To the Honourable Robert Digby From Mr Pope”, in Mr. Pope’s Literary Correspondence For Thirty Years, from 1704 to 1734 […], 3rd edition, volume I, London: […] E[dmund] Curll, […], published 1735, page 114
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.
1889, Mathilde Blind, “[Love in Exile. Song X.] ‘On Life’s Long Round’.”, in The Ascent of Man, London: Chatto & Windus, […], stanza 1, page 177