PEARLING Synonyms

• having brief brilliant points or flashes of light

• made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow

• brilliant

• reflecting light

• the work of making something smooth and shiny by rubbing or waxing it

• marked by exceptional merit

• made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow

• reflecting light

• used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide

• a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash

• shining with brilliant points of light like stars

• a weak and tremulous light

• shine with a weak or fitful light

• give off a shimmering reflection, as of silk

• a small ball with a hole through the middle

• a shape that is spherical and small

• a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture

• form into beads, as of water or sweat, for example

• decorate by sewing beads onto

• string together like beads

• a shape that is spherical and small

• a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid)

• a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity

• a steep high face of rock

• a predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property)

• a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity

• a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery

• a central depository where things can be left or picked up

• the act of dropping something

• let fall to the ground

• to fall vertically

• go down in value

• fall or descend to a lower place or level

• terminate an association with

• utter with seeming casualness

• stop pursuing or acting

• remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave

• cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow

• lose (a game)

• pay out

• lower the pitch of (musical notes)

• hang loosely

• stop associating with

• let or cause to fall in drops

• to remove

• take (a drug, especially LSD), by mouth

• omit (a letter or syllable) in speaking or writing

• leave undone or leave out

• change from one level to another

• fall or sink into a state of exhaustion or death

• grow progressively worse

• give birth; used for animals

• a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses

• a shade of white the color of bleached bones

• a shade of white the color of bleached bones

• of something having a color tending toward white