ivoryn.
/ˈʌɪvəri/ 1.
a. The hard, white, elastic, and fine-grained substance (being dentine of exceptional hardness) composing the main part of the tusks of the elephant, mammoth (fossil n. and adj.), hippopotamus, walrus, and narwhal; it forms a very valuable article of commerce, being extensively employed as a material for many articles of use or ornament.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > bone or horn > [noun] > ivory
oliphant's teethc1275
ivory-bone13..
alpes bonc1325
ivoryc1330
ruelc1330
ruel-bonec1330
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β. c1386 G. Chaucer Summoner's Tale 33 A peyre of tables al of yuory.a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 79 Euery and precious stones.a1400 K. Alis. (Bodl.) 7666 Þe pynnes weron of yuory.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 9360 Fair es þe muth o þat leuedi, And ilk toth es als ywori [Gött. yuory, Trin. Cambr. Iuory; c1460 Laud yvory].1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 15 My tablees of ivory.?c1475 Sqr. lowe Degre 100 Anone that lady, fayre and fre Undyd a pynne of yverè.1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde ii. vi. 76 The tooth of an olyfaunt is yuorye.1552 in W. Page Inventories Church Goods York, Durham & Northumberland (1897) 43 One pix of everye, bounde with silver.1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A8v Double gates..The one faire fram'd of burnisht Yuory.1593 Queen Elizabeth I tr. Boethius De Consolatione Philosophiæ in Queen Elizabeth's Englishings (1899) i. pr. v. 20 Nor doo I desyre my shops walles adornid with yuory or glasse.1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. i. 36 There is more difference betweene thy flesh and hers, then betweene Iet and Iuorie . View more context for this quotation1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 368 To the feate Of Artisan, giue place the gould, stones, Yv'ry, and Geat.1611 Bible (King James) Ezek. xxvii. 15 Hornes of Iuorie, and Ebenie. View more context for this quotation1720 J. Gay Fan iii, in Poems I. 61 For this, shall elephants their ivory shed.1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs ii. 71 The Ceylon Ivory, and that of the Island of Achem, do not become yellow in the wearing, as all other ivory does.1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 1038 The hardest, toughest, whitest, and most translucent ivory has the preference in the market; for many purposes the horn of the narwhal being considered the best... The ivory of the hippopotamus is preferred by dentists.1881 C. S. Tomes in Encycl. Brit. XIII. 522/2 When first cut it [African ivory] is semi-transparent and of a warm colour; in this state it is called ‘green’ ivory, and as it dries it becomes much lighter in colour and more opaque.γ. a1474 Inventory in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 362 A combe of veveri.1560 in Reg. Guild Corpus Christi York (1872) 307 A pyx of vyvery with a lytle white canaby.c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 1888 Mirie notes he fand Opon his rote of yuere.
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xliv. 7 Howsis of euor.
c1369 G. Chaucer Bk. Duchesse 946 Hyr throte..Semed a rounde toure of yvoyre.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 17 Of yvor white He hath hire wroght.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 9944 A tron of iuor [Gött. yuor] graid.
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 178 Hyr vysage whyt as playn yuore.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxv. 115 Ilkane..beres before him a table of iaspre, or of euour.
14.. J. Lydgate in MS. Soc. Antiq. 134 lf. 14 (Halliwell) Like yvor that cometh fro so ferre, His teeth schalle be even, smothe and white.
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Song of Sol. vii. 4 Thi necke is as a tour of yuer.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 267/1 Ivor, or ivery (H. iwr, or iwery, S. yvory, P. iuyr), ebur.
c1450 Mirour Saluacioun 1148 Of fynest gold and aldere whittest yvore.
1559 D. Lindsay Test. Papyngo l. 1107 in Wks. (1931) I Syne, close thame in one cais of Ebure fyne.
a1586 [see Compounds 1b]. b. = dentine n.
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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > substance or parts of teeth > [noun] > dentine
ivory1828
dentine1845
osteodentine1849
vitro-dentine1849
tooth-ivory1851
plicidentine1852
tooth-bone1853
1828 R. Knox tr. H. Cloquet Syst. Human Anat. 89 The bony portion of the teeth, or the Ivory [Fr. l'Ivoire], forms a very dense mass.
2. A substance resembling ivory, or made in imitation of it. vegetable ivory, the hard albumen of the nut or seed of a South American palm, Phytelephas macrocarpa, which resembles ivory in hardness, colour, and texture, and is used for ornamental work, buttons, etc.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > other vegetable materials > [noun] > ornamental nut
vegetable ivory1842
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > synthetic resins and plastics > [noun] > cellulose materials > celluloid
Parkesine1862
xylonite1869
celluloid1872
ivoride1875
ivory1875
bonzoline1885
Parisian ivory1921
xylo1926
1842 D. Cooper in Microsc. Jrnl. No. 16 (heading) On Vegetable Ivory.
1857 A. Henfrey Elem. Course Bot. 394 Nuts suitable for turning are afforded by the seeds of Attalea funifera (Coquilla-nuts), Phytelephas macrocarpa (Vegetable Ivory).
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 884/2 The fruit consists of a collection of six or seven drupes... Each drupe contains from six to nine seeds, the Vegetable Ivory of commerce... The seed at first contains a clear insipid fluid..afterwards this same liquor becomes milky and sweet, and it changes by degrees until it becomes as hard as ivory.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1207/1 Ivory, Artificial, a compound of caoutchouc, sulphur, and some white ingredients, such as gypsum..or pipeclay.
1887 Whitaker's Almanack Advt. 12 Burmese Ivory..Exact imitation of Real Ivory, in colour, grain, and finish.
3. black ivory slang.: African slaves as an object of commerce. [ < the trade in these at the time being chiefly located in the same districts as that in ivory.]
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society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > black slaves as object of trade
black ivory1873
1873 R. M. Ballantyne (title) Black ivory: a tale of adventure among the slavers of East Africa.
1873 R. M. Ballantyne Black Ivory 27 The price of black ivory was up in the market.
1884 Sword & Trowel June 258 The trade, which began with ivory, had now turned to slave-dealing—black ivory, as these, our fellow-men, are called in the market.
1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Mar. 11/2 Help them to make money otherwise than by dealing in black ivory, and we shall see the slave trade extirpated.
4. The colour of ivory; ivory-white; esp. whiteness of the human skin.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [noun] > pure whiteness > as ivory
ivory1590
ivoriness1824
ivory-white1897
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. iii. sig. Ee The doubtfull Mayd..Was all abasht, and her pure yuory Into a cleare Carnation suddeine dyde.
c1632 in Athenæum 27 Jan. (1883) 121/2 How well the Paynter to the life exprest The soft and swelling yvory of her Breast.
1726 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xviii. 228 The pure ivory o'er her bosom spreads.
1888 Daily News 1 May 5/7 Ivory-white is generally preferred to dead-white for the dress, as being less trying to the complexion. Nearly all recent brides have worn ivory.
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a. An article made of ivory, esp. a carving in that material.
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b. A season ticket, etc. as consisting of a tablet of ivory.
c. slang (usually plural) (a) Dice; to touch ivory, to play at dice. (b) Billiard balls.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > die or dice
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huckle-bone1542
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St Hugh's bones1785
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > play at dice [verb (intransitive)]
taveleOE
dicec1440
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to shake the elbow1705
jeff1837
to touch ivory1864
to roll (the, them) bones1891
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > ball
bowl1530
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pool ball1838
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ivory1888
1830 E. Bulwer-Lytton Paul Clifford I. iv. 64 Suppose we adjourn to Fish Lane, and rattle the ivories!
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 207/1 Ivory is also the name for a pass-ticket on a railway, or subscriber's admission to a theatre, public gardens, etc.
1864 G. A. Sala Quite Alone vii Yes, I will promise you I will keep my head cool, and won't touch ivory tonight.
1875 W. Maskell Ivories 15 The famous Assyrian ivories..which are..preserved in the British Museum.
1875 W. Maskell Ivories 119 I advised that the ivories should be taken out of the wooden frames.
1888 Sporting Life (Philadelphia) 28 Nov. (Farmer) On new premises..where erstwhile the click of ivories was heard.
1899 A. West Recoll. I. iii. 95 I was given what was known as an ‘ivory’ for Lord Dudley's double box on the grand tier.
d. collective singular and plural. The keys of a piano or similar instrument. colloquial.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > [noun] > keyboard of > key
key1513
note1697
tasto1740
ivory1818
digital1878
manual1882
touch key1891
1818 J. Keats Let. 18 Dec. (1958) II. 13 She plays the Music without one sensation but the feel of the ivory at her fingers.
1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xi. 114 It is a wonder how any fingers can move over the jingling ivory so quickly as Miss Cann's.
1918 F. Hunt Blown in by Draft vi. 143 Ole Hen Sauser..started, walking up and down the black and white ivories until he had the brown box rocking and swaying and jazzing like eight electric pianos.
1940 S.P.E. Tract lv. 196 Tickle the ivories.
1962 Times 10 Feb. 4/2 ‘Ivory-tickling’ has become an outmoded and faintly derogatory description of piano-playing.
1974 Times 15 Feb. 14/7 Its cover portrays the Prime Minister, seated at the organ, tinkling one lot of ivories and flashing the other lot.
6. A tusk of an elephant, etc.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [noun] > mouth > tooth or tusk
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tusclec1000
broach1607
crotchet1678
fang1700
ivory1894
1894 G. H. Portal Mission Uganda v. 88 They danced,..swinging the great ivories from one shoulder to the other.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 325 Some of these private ivories are kept for years and years before they reach the trader's hands.
7. slang. (singular and plural) The teeth.
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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > tooth or teeth > [noun]
teetha900
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gams1508
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tusk1632
masticator1681
headrail1767
ivory1783
tombstone1809
dominos1828
dental1837
toothy-peg1840
fang1841
cruncher1859
chomper1884
teg1886
Hampstead Heath1887
pearly1914
gnasher1919
tat1919
pearly whites1935
chopper1937
1783 H. Cowley Bold Stroke for Husband ii. ii. 16 Don Sancho? who..complains of the tooth-ach, to make you believe, that the two rows of ivory he carries in his head, grew there.
1811 Lexicon Balatronicum (at cited word) How the swell flashed his ivories: how the gentleman showed his teeth.
1819 Sporting Mag. 5 7 A chattering blow upon the mouth, which loosened the ivory.
1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. ix. 137 He showed his ivory some, I guess, an' sez, ‘You're fairly pinned’.
1898 Tit-Bits 18 June 230/1 His friend who gets one of his ‘ivories’ extracted with..skill by the same dentist.
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a. Made or consisting of ivory. ivory gate: see gate n.1 5a.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > bone or horn > [adjective] > made of ivory
ivorieda1300
ivorinea1382
ivory1382
yverysshe1530
1382 J. Wyclif Psalms xliv. 9 [xlv. 8] Fro the yuer housis.
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1822) v. 462 Thay sett doun in evore chiaris.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 457 The Ivory Image of Aiax.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) ii. i. 346 In Iuory cofers I haue stuft my crownes. View more context for this quotation
1737 R. Glover Leonidas iii. 138 The iv'ry car with azure sapphirs shone.
1855 Ld. Tennyson Lett. iii She took the little ivory chest.
b. White or smooth as ivory.
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the world > space > shape > flatness or levelness > smoothness > [adjective] > like specific substance or material
silken1513
marble1558
ivorya1586
velvet1592
satin1605
silka1616
velvet-like1677
satin-like1680
satined1693
satiny1693
velvety1752
marbly1814
satin-smooth1838
ivorine1888
ivoried1890
swanskin1925
the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [adjective] > pure white > as ivory or bone
white as whale's bonec1275
ivorya1586
ivory-white1595
eburnean1656
eburnine1822
bone-coloured1837
bone-white1850
ivorine1888
ivoried1890
a1586 Banks Helicon 63 in Montgomerie's Poems 275 With yvoire nek, and pomellis round, And comlie intervall.
1594 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis (new ed.) sig. Cv Sometimes her armes infold him like a band..Fondling, she saith, since I haue hemd thee here Within the circuit of this iuorie pale.
1625 F. Quarles Sions Sonets xii. sig. C4v Thy Iuorie Teeth.
1652 H. Crompton tr. H. C. Agrippa Glory of Women Ep. Ded. sig. A3 Let your Ivory fingers turn over these Leaves.
1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 98 Refresh your delicate feet, and your ivory limbs.
1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 208 The complexion was typically ‘ivory’.
1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 June 8/1 The bridesmaids' dresses were composed of embroidered mousselaine de soie over ivory satin.
1897 ‘Ouida’ Massarenes xiv She turned her ivory shoulder on him.
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a. General attributive.
ivory broker n.
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1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 Aug. 10/2 The alleged news of the death of Mr. Stanley is said..to have been brought by ivory-brokers.
ivory convoy n.
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1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 27 May 8/1 The story of an ivory convoy making its way to Zanzibar.
ivory dealer n.
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1799 J. Corse in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 89 212 I am credibly informed, by the ivory-dealers in London, that the largest tusks generally come from Africa.
ivory merchant n.
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1863 J. H. Speke Jrnl. Discov. Source Nile 101 The greatest man we found here was a broken-down ivory-merchant called Serboko.
b. Objective and objective genitive.
ivory-bearer n.
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1898 19th Cent. 1021 The ivory-bearers eluded the ivory-hunters, and moved on into the grass.
ivory-carving n.
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1839 Chambers' Tour Holland 22/1 Numerous cases displaying prodigies of Chinese skill, in ivory-carving.
ivory-hunter n.
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1900 Q. Rev. Apr. 307 White ivory-hunters are scarce nowadays.
ivory-hunting n.
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1898 Dublin Rev. July 168 The lessees also make lucrative speculations in ivory-hunting.
ivory-turner n.
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1703 London Gaz. No. 3902/4 Serjeant Jacob Rand,..an *Ivory-Turner by Trade.
ivory-turning n.
c. Similative, parasynthetic, and instrumental.
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ivory-backed adj.
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1887 J. Ashby-Sterry Lazy Minstrel (1892) 192 There's hair-dye for the gay old boys, And ivory-backed brushes.
ivory-beaked adj.
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1864 Ld. Tennyson Islet 12 A bevy of Eroses apple-cheek'd In a shallop of crystal ivory-beak'd.
ivory-faced adj.
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1886 R. L. Stevenson Strange Case Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde iv. 41 An ivory-faced and silvery-haired old woman opened the door.
ivory-hafted adj.
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1706 J. Vanbrugh Mistake iv. i. 296 There's thy ivory-hafted knife again.
ivory-handled adj.
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1813 Examiner 3 May 275/1 Ivory-handled..Knives and Forks.
ivory-headed adj.
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1820 J. Keats Eve of St. Agnes in Lamia & Other Poems 88 The aged creature came, Shuffling along with ivory-headed wand.
ivory-hilted adj.
ivory-shadowed adj.
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1589 T. Lodge Scillaes Metamorphosis B 2 An yuorie shadowed front.
ivory-studded adj.
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1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad V. xix. 430 The Iv'ry studded Reins, return'd behind, Wav'd o'er their Backs, and to the Chariot join'd.
ivory-tinted adj.
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1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda IV. viii. lxx. 361 She was glowing like..a delicate, ivory-tinted flower.
ivory-toned adj.
ivory-wristed adj.
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?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads i. 197 Th' ivory-wristed Queen.
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ivory-like adj.
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1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 460/1 The removal of an ivory-like exostosis from the tibia.
C3. Special combinations. Also ivory-black n., ivory-bone n., ivory-white adj. and n.
ivory-agaric n. a species of mushroom, Hygrophorus eburneus ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1887).
ivory-barnacle n. a species of Acorn-shell, Balanus eburneus ( Cent. Dict. 1890).
ivory-bill n. a species of woodpecker, Picus or Campephilus principalis: cf. ivory-billed adj.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Picidae > genus Picus (woodpecker) > other types of
ivory-bill1787
redhead1816
Gila1858
zebra woodpecker1884
1787 Ellicott Almanac 1788 (Winchester, Va.) sig. B2 The land fowls [of Kentucky] are turkeys, pheasants,..the perraquet, ivory-bill, woodcock, and the great owl.
1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 191 The ivory-bill and the flicker stand nearly at extremes of the family.
1893 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. II 460 Ivory-bill, an abbreviation of Ivory-billed Woodpecker, so called from the colour of its beak, Picus or Campephilus principalis.
ivory-billed adj. having a bill resembling ivory, as ivory-billed woodpecker (see ivorist n.), and ivory-billed coot, ( Fulica americana).
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1893Ivory-billed [see ivory-bill n.].
ivory board n. a kind of pasteboard with both surfaces smooth.Cardboard is pasteboard made of superior paper, and of the same quality and colour throughout; a finer and more highly-finished form made with starch paste is called ivory board.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > materials made from paper or pulp > [noun] > cardboard > types of
index board1850
carton1891
third1891
poster board1899
tagboard1912
triplex board1921
ivory board1926
1926 Paper Terminol. (Spalding & Hodge) 14 Ivory boards, superfine cardboard highly finished by means of bees~waxed rolls.
1962 F. T. Day Introd. to Paper iv. 46 A large variety of boards is produced by the paper maker, in grades ranging from high class Bristol and Ivory boards to the cheaper kind of Triplex board.
ivory-brown n. bone-brown obtained from ivory.
ivory dome n. U.S. slang a stupid person.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > stupid person, dolt, blockhead > [noun]
asseOE
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thickskin1582
noddyship?1589
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beetle-brain1593
Dorbel1593
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Tom Cony1699
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cabbage1844
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slowpoke1847
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moke1855
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tattie1879
chump1883
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lunkhead1884
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dumbhead1887
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John1908
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moron1917
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jabroni1919
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knob1920
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dimwit1922
ivory dome1923
stone jug1923
dingleberry1924
gimp1924
bird brain1926
jughead1926
cloth-head1927
dumb1928
gazook1928
mouldwarp1928
ding-dong1929
stupido1929
mook1930
sparrow-brain1930
knobhead1931
dip1932
drip1932
epsilon1932
bohunkus1933
Nimrod1933
dumbass1934
zombie1936
pea-brain1938
knot-head1940
schlump1941
jarhead1942
Joe Soap1943
knuckle-head1944
nong1944
lame-brain1945
gobshite1946
rock-head1947
potato head1948
jerko1949
turkey1951
momo1953
poop-head1955
a right one1958
bam1959
nong-nong1959
dickhead1960
dumbo1960
Herbert1960
lamer1961
bampot1962
dipshit1963
bamstick1965
doofus1965
dick1966
pillock1967
zipperhead1967
dipstick1968
thickie1968
poephol1969
yo-yo1970
doof1971
cockhead1972
nully1973
thicko1976
wazzock1976
motorhead1979
mouth-breather1979
no-brainer1979
jerkwad1980
woodentop1981
dickwad1983
dough ball1983
dickweed1984
bawheid1985
numpty1985
jerkweed1988
dick-sucker1989
knob-end1989
Muppet1989
dingus1997
dicksack1999
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1923 R. D. Paine Comrades Rolling Ocean ix. 160 He got tired of trying to shove the book stuff into ivory domes like yours.
ivory-eater n. (see quot.).
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > [noun] > family Sciuridae (squirrel) > genus sciurus (tree squirrel) > sciurus iborivorus (ivory-rat)
ivory-eater1861
ivory-rat1897
1861 P. B. Du Chaillu Explor. Equatorial Afr. xvi. 281 An..animal of the squirrel kind, called by the natives the mboco, which eats ivory. I have called it the ‘ivory-eater, Sciurus eborivorus’.
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ivory-exostosis n. Pathology ‘the form of bone tumour which is hard and dense like ivory’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1884).
ivory-gull n. see gull n.1
ivory-jelly n. a jelly made from ivory dust or turnings ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1887).
ivory-joint n. ? a morbid hardening of a joint.
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1885 A. Christison et al. Life Sir R. Christison I. 122 But eventually he was attacked with what appeared to be sub-acute rheumatism of both knee-joints, ending slowly in ‘ivory-joints’, or perhaps anchylosis.
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ivory-line n. Entomology a smooth yellowish-white space found on the elytra of many beetles.
ivory needle thorn n.
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1880 P. Gillmore On Duty 11 In the south the veldt is covered with the ivory needle thorn.
ivory-nut n. the seed of the South American palm, Phytelephas macrocarpa, the albumen of which hardens into vegetable ivory: see sense 2; the Corozo-nut.
ivory palm n. (also ivory nut palm) a South American palm of the genus Phytelephas, or a Micronesian one of the genus Metroxylon, both of which bear nuts yielding vegetable ivory.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants, nuts, seeds, or fruits used as beads or vessels > [noun] > vegetable ivory palm or seed
Negro's head1670
corozo1758
tagua1830
vegetable ivory1842
ivory palm1844
ivory-plant1866
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > palm trees > [noun] > ivory palm
Negro's head1670
corozo1758
tagua1830
ivory palm1844
ivory-plant1866
1844 W. Purdie Let. 14 Dec. in Compan. Bot. Mag. (1847) 73 11 The Phytelephas (Vegetable Ivory Palm) is procurable at Sta. Martha.
1844 W. Purdie Let. 14 Dec. in Compan. Bot. Mag. (1847) 73 12 I think of ascending the Magdalena, and myself collecting growing plants and seeds of the Ivory Palm.
1857 A. Gray First Lessons Bot. (1866) 136 In the Ivory Palm it has the hardness as well as the general appearance of ivory.
1871 C. Kingsley At Last I. viii. 303 The ripe fruit [of the Moriche palm] contains first a rich pulpy nut, and at last a hard cone, something like that of the vegetable ivory palm.
1916 Jrnl. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 24 iv. 682 Names of the Tree [sc. Phytelephas macrocarpa]. English: Large-fruited Ivory Plant, Ivory Palm, Ivory nut Palm, Vegetable Ivory Plant.
1951 J. H. Kraemer Trees W. Pacific Region 10 In this genus [sc. Metroxylon] are the sago palms and the ivory-nut palms.
1966 E. J. H. Corner Nat. Hist. Palms xiii. 315 This anomalous species is the Caroline ivory-nut palm, M[etroxylon] amicorum of Micronesia.
ivory-paper n. a thick paper or thin cardboard with a finely prepared polished surface, used by artists.
ivory-plant n. = ivory palm n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants, nuts, seeds, or fruits used as beads or vessels > [noun] > vegetable ivory palm or seed
Negro's head1670
corozo1758
tagua1830
vegetable ivory1842
ivory palm1844
ivory-plant1866
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > palm trees > [noun] > ivory palm
Negro's head1670
corozo1758
tagua1830
ivory palm1844
ivory-plant1866
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 884/1 The Ivory Plant of South America..producing the nuts known as..Vegetable Ivory in commerce.
ivory plum n. U.S. the wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, or the creeping snowberry, Chiogenes hispidula, or their fruit.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > non-British climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > North American
woodbine1624
Virginia vine1629
staff-tree1633
Virginia creeper?1703
climbing vine1760
mayflower1778
pepper vine1783
arbutus1785
trailing arbutus1785
pipe vine1803
Ampelopsis1805
ground-laurel1814
waxwork1818
ivory plum1828
fever twig1830
yerba buena1847
mountain pink1850
New England mayflower1855
creeping snowberry1856
Virginian creeper1856
May blossom1871
sand verbena1880
staff-vine1884
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > non-British medicinal trees or shrubs > wintergreen shrubs
wintergreen1778
mountain tea1785
spice-berry1792
partridgeberry1814
tea-berry1818
ivory plum1828
twinberry1836
ivy-berry1840
partridge bush1843
Gaultheria1848
checker-berry1852
partridge-vine1860
snowberry1866
one-berry1873
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > non-British medicinal trees or shrubs > wintergreen shrubs > berry
boxberry1706
checker-berry1784
ivory plum1828
twinberry1836
1828 J. Neal Rachel Dyer 55 The more brilliant ivory-plumbs or clustered bunch-berries rattled among the withered herbage.
1891 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 4 149 Gaultheria procumbens seems to have an almost endless variety of epithets... The berries are called Ivory Plums.
1892 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 5 99 Chiogenes serpyllifolia, ivory plums.
ivory-rat n. = ivory-eater n.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > [noun] > family Sciuridae (squirrel) > genus sciurus (tree squirrel) > sciurus iborivorus (ivory-rat)
ivory-eater1861
ivory-rat1897
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 325 Ivories..gnawed by that strange little creature..the ivory rat. This squirrel-like creature was first brought to Europe by Paul du Chaillu.
ivory-saw n. (see quot.).
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1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1207/2 Ivory-saw, a thin saw stretched in a steel frame for sawing ivory from the solid.
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ivory-shell n. a univalve of the genus Eburna, of an ivory colour.
ivory-space n. = ivory-line n.
ivory-tablet n. (see quot.).
ivory-tree n. an East Indian tree of the genus Wrightia, having wood of a texture and colour resembling ivory (Miller Plant-n. 1884).
ivory-type n. (see quot. 1875).
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > a photograph > [noun] > colour
heliochrome1853
colour photograph1857
ivory-type1873
heliochromotype1875
photochrome1878
mezzograph1890
sepia print1892
chromogram1893
kromogram1897
autochrome1907
separation1922
colour snap1928
1873 T. B. Aldrich Marjorie Daw vii There is an exquisite ivorytype of Marjorie.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1207/2 Ivory-type (Photography), a kind of picture in which two finished photographs are taken, one light in colour, made translucent by varnish, tinted on the back, and placed over a stronger picture, so as to give the effect of a photograph in natural colours.
ivorywood n. Australian the tree Siphonodon australe, or its timber, which is used for drawing-instruments, etc.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > Australasian
tallow-tree1704
rata1773
rosewood1779
red mahogany1798
ironbark1799
wild orange1802
red gum1803
rewarewa1817
red cedar1818
black-butted gum1820
Huon pine1820
miro1820
oak1821
horoeka1831
hinau1832
maire1832
totara1832
blackbutt1833
marri1833
raspberry jam tree1833
kohekohe1835
puriri1835
tawa1839
hickory1840
whau1840
pukatea1841
titoki1842
butterbush1843
iron gum1844
York gum1846
mangeao1848
myall1848
ironheart1859
lilly-pilly1860
belah1862
flindosa1862
jarrah1866
silky oak1866
teak of New South Wales1866
Tolosa-wood1866
turmeric-tree1866
walking-stick palm1869
tooart1870
queenwood1873
tarairi1873
boree1878
yate1880
axe-breaker1884
bangalay1884
coachwood1884
cudgerie1884
feather-wood1884
forest mahogany1884
maiden's blush1884
swamp mahogany1884
tallow-wood1884
teak of New Zealand1884
wandoo1884
heartwood1885
ivorywood1887
Jimmy Low1887
Burdekin plum1889
corkwood1889
pigeon-berry ash1889
red beech1889
silver beech1889
turnip-wood1891
black bean1895
red bean1895
pinkwood1898
poplar1898
rose mahogany1898
quandong1908
lancewood1910
New Zealand honeysuckle1910
Queensland walnut1919
mahogany gum1944
Australian mahogany1948
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > other Australasian woods
puriri1835
beef-wood1836
whau1840
rimu1851
cheesewood1854
Tolosa-wood1866
karri1870
ivorywood1887
1887 Colonial & Indian Exhib., London 1886: Rep. Colonial Sections 429 Ivory-wood.
1888 F. M. Bailey Queensland Woods 29 Ivory-wood. A tall tree with straight erect stem, the bark of a light colour... Found in the dense scrubs both north and south in Queensland, and also in New South Wales.
1932 R. H. Anderson Trees New S. Wales 145 Ivorywood..is sometimes known as Native Guava.
1965 Austral. Encycl. II. 310/1 Though widely spread in coastal New South Wales and Queensland, the ivorywood is a comparatively rare tree.
ivory-yellow n. a very pale yellow, almost white.
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