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Definition of ivory
Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of ivory is as below...
Ivory (n.) The hard,
white,
opaque,
fine-grained
substance
constituting
the tusks of the
elephant.
It is a
variety
of
dentine,
characterized
by the
minuteness
and close
arrangement
of the
tubes,
as also by their
double
flexure.
It is used in
manufacturing
articles
of
ornament
or
utility..
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Elephant
::
Elephant
(n.)
Ivory;
the tusk of the
elephant.
Ivoride
::
Ivoride
(n.) A
composition
resembling
ivory in
appearance
and used as a
substitute
for it.
Rule
::
Rule (a.) A
measuring
instrument
consisting
of a
graduated
bar of wood,
ivory,
metal,
or the like, which is
usually
marked
so as to show
inches
and
fractions
of an inch, and
jointed
so that it may be
folded
compactly..
Strigillose
::
Strigil
(n.) An
instrument
of
metal,
ivory,
etc., used for
scraping
the skin at the
bath..
Parkesine
::
Parkesine
(n.) A
compound,
originally
made from gun
cotton
and
castor
oil, but later from
different
materials,
and used as a
substitute
for
vulcanized
India
rubber
and for
ivory;
--
called
also
xylotile..
Domino
::
Domino
(n.) A game
played
by two or more
persons,
with
twenty-eight
pieces
of wood, bone, or
ivory,
of a flat,
oblong
shape,
plain at the back, but on the face
divided
by a line in the
middle,
and
either
left blank or
variously
dotted
after the
manner
of dice. The game is
played
by
matching
the spots or the blank of an
unmatched
half of a
domino
already
played.
Burnisher
::
Burnisher
(n.) A tool with a hard,
smooth,
rounded
end or
surface,
as of
steel,
ivory,
or
agate,
used in
smoothing
or
polishing
by
rubbing.
It has a
variety
of forms
adapted
to
special
uses..
Ivory
::
Ivory (n.) Any
carving
executed
in
ivory.
Abaiser
::
Abaiser
(n.) Ivory black or
animal
charcoal.
Jackstraw
::
"Jackstraw
(n.) One of a set of
straws
of
strips
of
ivory,
bone, wood, etc., for
playing
a
child's
game, the
jackstraws
being
thrown
confusedly
together
on a
table,
to be
gathered
up
singly
by a
hooked
instrument,
without
touching
or
disturbing
the rest of the pile. See
Spilikin..
Chryselephantine
::
Chryselephantine
(a.)
Composed
of, or
adorned
with, gold and
ivory..
Spilled
::
Spill (v. t.) To cover or
decorate
with
slender
pieces
of wood,
metal,
ivory,
etc.; to
inlay..
Billiards
::
Billiards
(n.) A game
played
with ivory balls o a
cloth-covered,
rectangular
table,
bounded
by
elastic
cushions.
The
player
seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall
either
strike
(carom
upon) two other
balls,
or drive
another
ball into one of the
pockets
with which the table
sometimes
is
furnished..
Walrus
::
Walrus
(n.) A very large
marine
mammal
(Trichecus
rosmarus)
of the Seal
family,
native
of the
Arctic
Ocean.
The male has long and
powerful
tusks
descending
from the upper jaw. It uses these in
procuring
food and in
fighting.
It is
hunted
for its oil,
ivory,
and skin. It feeds
largely
on
mollusks.
Called
also
morse..
Scobs
::
Scobs (n. sing. & pl.)
Raspings
of
ivory,
hartshorn,
metals,
or other hard
substance..
Elephant
::
Elephant
(n.) A
mammal
of the order
Proboscidia,
of which two
living
species,
Elephas
Indicus
and E.
Africanus,
and
several
fossil
species,
are
known.
They have a
proboscis
or
trunk,
and two large ivory tusks
proceeding
from the
extremity
of the upper jaw, and
curving
upwards.
The molar teeth are large and have
transverse
folds.
Elephants
are the
largest
land
animals
now
existing..
Spilikin
::
Spilikin
(n.) One of a
number
of small
pieces
or pegs of wood,
ivory,
bone, or other
material,
for
playing
a game, or for
counting
the score in a game, as in
cribbage.
In the
plural
(spilikins.
Eburnification
::
Eburnification
(n.) The
conversion
of
certain
substances
into
others
which have the
appearance
or
characteristics
of
ivory.
Telltale
::
Telltale
(n.) A
movable
piece of
ivory,
lead, or other
material,
connected
with the
bellows
of an
organ,
that gives
notice,
by its
position,
when the wind is
exhausted..
Hellenotype
::
Hellenotype
(n.) See
Ivorytype.
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