What is the name meaning of IVORY. Phrases containing IVORY
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Girl/Female
Biblical
House of the tooth, or of ivory, or of sleep.
Girl/Female
Biblical
House of the tooth, or of ivory, or of sleep.
Girl/Female
English American
White; pure. Reference to creamy-white color of ivory; or to the hard tusk used for carving fine...
Girl/Female
Biblical
Tooth, ivory, change.
Surname or Lastname
English, Scottish, French, and German
English, Scottish, French, and German : from Middle English, Old French, Middle High German olifant ‘elephant’ (medieval Latin olifantus, from classical Latin elephantus, Greek elephas, genitive elephantos). The circumstances in which this word was applied as a surname are not clear. It may have been a nickname for a large, lumbering individual, or a metonymic occupational name for a worker in ivory, or a habitational name from a house distinguished by the sign of an elephant.
Girl/Female
Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
White as Ivory
Girl/Female
Australian, German, Greek
White as Milk; Ivory Coloured
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : variant of Ivory.
Boy/Male
Biblical
In the tooth; in ivory.
Biblical
in the tooth, in ivory
Surname or Lastname
English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Ivry-la-Bataille in Eure, northern France.Scottish : when not of the same origin as 1, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Iamharach (see McIver).
Girl/Female
American, Australian, British, Christian, English, Latin
Pure; Creamy-white Color; Hard Tusk; Hard Tusk Used for Carving Fine Art and Jewellery
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n.
The ivory gull (Larus eburneus).
n.
A mathematical instrument, consisting of a slip of wood, ivory, or metal, with one or more sets of spaces graduated and numbered on its surface, for measuring or laying off distances, etc., as in drawing, plotting, and the like. See Gunter's scale.
v. t.
To form in a lathe; to shape or fashion (anything) by applying a cutting tool to it while revolving; as, to turn the legs of stools or tables; to turn ivory or metal.
n.
An instrument of metal, ivory, etc., used for scraping the skin at the bath.
n.
A small piece of marble, glass, earthenware, or the like, having a square, or nearly square, face, used by the ancients for mosaic, as for making pavements, for ornamenting walls, and like purposes; also, a similar piece of ivory, bone, wood, etc., used as a ticket of admission to theaters, or as a certificate for successful gladiators, and as a token for various other purposes.
n.
A Central American name for the ivory nut.
n.
A large, handsome, North American woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), having a large, sharp, ivory-colored beak. Its general color is glossy black, with white secondaries, and a white dorsal stripe. The male has a large, scarlet crest. It is now rare, and found only in the Gulf States.
n.
An ancient horn, made of ivory.
v. t.
To ornament, as shells, ivory, etc., by engraving, and (usually) rubbing pigments into the incised lines.
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.
n.
Any carving executed in ivory.
n. sing. & pl.
Raspings of ivory, hartshorn, metals, or other hard substance.
n.
See Ivorytype.
n.
Inlaid work; work inlaid with pieces of wood, shells, ivory, and the like, of several colors.
n.
A small, hard, elastic plate, as of ivory, bone, or rubber, placed in contact with body to receive the blow, in examination by mediate percussion.
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.
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.
v. t.
To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
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
v. i.
To undergo the process of turning on a lathe; as, ivory turns well.