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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.
The wood of Diospyros ebenaster, a kind of ebony found in Ceylon.
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a.
Consisting of ebony.
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.
n.
Ebony.
n.
Ebony.
n.
One who works in ebony.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Ebonize
a.
Like ebony, especially in color; black; dark.
n.
An instrument for exciting electricity, and repeating the charge indefinitely by induction, consisting of a flat cake of resin, shelllac, or ebonite, upon which is placed a plate of metal.
n.
A handsome tropical American wood, much used for making flutes and other wind instruments; -- called also Grenada cocos, or cocus, and red ebony.
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of Ebony
a.
Made of ebony, or resembling ebony; black; as, an ebony countenance.
n.
A piece of ebony or other material attached to the lower end of a violin or similar instrument, to which the strings are fastened.
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.
imp. & p. p.
of Ebonize
n.
A hard, heavy, and durable wood, which admits of a fine polish or gloss. The usual color is black, but it also occurs red or green.
v. t.
To make black, or stain black, in imitation of ebony; as, to ebonize wood.
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