Word Meanings - QUARRELET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A little quarrel. See 1st Quarrel, 2. "Quarrelets of pearl ." Herrick.

Related words: (words related to QUARRELET)

• QUARRELING
  Engaged in a quarrel; apt or disposed to quarrel; as, quarreling factions; a quarreling mood. -- Quar"rel*ing*ly, adv.
• PEARLACEOUS
  Resembling pearl or mother-of-pearl; pearly in quality or appearance.
• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• PEARL-EYED
  Having a pearly speck in the eye; afflicted with the cataract.
• PEARLFISH
  Any fish whose scales yield a pearl-like pigment used in manufacturing artificial pearls, as the bleak, and whitebait.
• PEARLY
  1. Containing pearls; abounding with, or yielding, pearls; as, pearly shells. Milton. 2. Resembling pearl or pearls; clear; pure; transparent; iridescent; as, the pearly dew or flood.
• LITTLE-EASE
  An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer.
• QUARRELLOUS
  Quarrelsome. Shak.
• PEARLASH
  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
• QUARREL
  Any small square or quadrangular member; as: A square of glass, esp. when set diagonally. A small opening in window tracery, of which the cusps, etc., make the form nearly square. A square or lozenge-shaped paving tile. 3. A glazier's
• QUARRELSOME
  Apt or disposed to quarrel; given to brawls and contention; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric. Syn. -- Pugnacious; irritable; irascible; brawling; choleric; fiery; petulant. -- Quar"rel*some*ly, adv. -- Quar"rel*some*ness,
• PEARL
  A fringe or border. -- v. t.
• PEARLWORT
  A name given to several species of Sagina, low and inconspicuous herbs of the Chickweed family.
• PEARLINS; PEARLINGS
  A kind of lace of silk or thread. Sir W. Scott.
• PEARLITE; PEARLSTONE
  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.
• QUARRELET
  A little quarrel. See 1st Quarrel, 2. "Quarrelets of pearl ." Herrick.
• LITTLE
  place being supplied by less, or, rarely, lesser. See Lesser. For the superlative least is used, the regular form, littlest, occurring very rarely, except in some of the English provinces, and occasionally in colloquial language. " Where love is
• MOTHER-OF-PEARL
  The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
• DO-LITTLE
  One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.
• IMPEARL
  1. To form into pearls, or into that which resembles pearls. Dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower. Milton. 2. To decorate as with pearls or with anything resembling pearls. With morning dews impearled. Mrs. Browning. The
• ICY-PEARLED
  Spangled with ice. Mounting up in icy-pearled car. Milton.