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Calamander Wood :: Calamander wood () A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazel-brown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a species of ebony, and is obtained from the Diospyros quaesita. Called also Coromandel wood..

Ebonizing :: Ebonizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Eboniz.

Right Whale :: Right whale () Any other whale that produces valuable whalebone, as the Atlantic, or Biscay, right whale (Balaena cisarctica), and the Pacific right whale (B. Sieboldii); a bone whale..

Ebonite :: Ebonite (n.) A hard, black variety of vulcanite. It may be cut and polished, and is used for many small articles, as combs and buttons, and for insulating material in electric apparatus..

Bogwood :: Bogwood (n.) The wood of trees, esp. of oaks, dug up from peat bogs. It is of a shining black or ebony color, and is largely used for making ornaments..

Bone :: Bone (n.) Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset..

Debonair :: Debonair (a.) Characterized by courteousness, affability, or gentleness; of good appearance and manners; graceful; complaisant..

Fin :: Fin (n.) A blade of whalebone.

Whalebone :: Whalebone (n.) A firm, elastic substance resembling horn, taken from the upper jaw of the right whale; baleen. It is used as a stiffening in stays, fans, screens, and for various other purposes. See Baleen..

Ebonies :: Ebonies (pl. ) of Ebon.

Sharebone :: Sharebone (n.) The public bone.

Edgebone :: Edgebone (n.) Same as Aitchbone.

Grenadillo :: Grenadillo (n.) A handsome tropical American wood, much used for making flutes and other wind instruments; -- called also Grenada cocos, or cocus, and red ebony..

Bone :: Bone (v. t.) To put whalebone into; as, to bone stays..

Omander Wood :: Omander wood () The wood of Diospyros ebenaster, a kind of ebony found in Ceylon..

Probang :: Probang (n.) A slender elastic rod, as of whalebone, with a sponge on the end, for removing obstructions from the esophagus, etc..

Heben :: Heben (n.) Ebony.

Flexibility :: Flexibility (n.) The state or quality of being flexible; flexibleness; pliancy; pliability; as, the flexibility of strips of hemlock, hickory, whalebone or metal, or of rays of light..

Whale :: Whale (n.) Any aquatic mammal of the order Cetacea, especially any one of the large species, some of which become nearly one hundred feet long. Whales are hunted chiefly for their oil and baleen, or whalebone..

Spadebone :: Spadebone (n.) Shoulder blade.

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