Crossword clues for ivories
ivories
- What some musicians "tickle"
- Keys for a music room?
- D, E and F, but not F#, on a piano
- What piano players tickle
- What pianists "tickle"
- Tickled notes
- Tickle the ___
- They don't laugh when they're tickled
- Piano, slangily
- Piano keys (slang)
- Keys, so to speak
- Keys that may be tickled
- Keys that get 'tickled'
- Keys at a bar, perhaps
- 52 keys out of 88
- They're sometimes tickled
- Many keys
- They may be tickled
- Tickled ones
- Teeth, slangily
- They can't stay quiet when tickled
- Piano keys, slangily
- What Truman once tickled
- Items to be tickled
- What Liberace tickles
- Climbers pocketing gold keys
- Some piano keys
- Some keys, informally
- White piano keys
- White keys, on a piano
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ivory \I"vo*ry\ ([imac]"v[-o]*r[y^]), n.; pl. Ivories. [OE. ivori, F. ivoire, fr. L. eboreus made of ivory, fr. ebur, eboris, ivory, cf. Skr. ibha elephant. Cf. Eburnean.]
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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.
Note: Ivory is the name commercially given not only to the substance constituting the tusks of the elephant, but also to that of the tusks of the hippopotamus and walrus, the hornlike tusk of the narwhal, etc.
The tusks themselves of the elephant, etc.
Any carving executed in ivory.
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pl. Teeth; as, to show one's ivories. [Slang]
Ivory black. See under Black, n.
Ivory gull (Zo["o]l.), a white Arctic gull ( Larus eburneus).
Ivory nut (Bot.), the nut of a species of palm, the Phytephas macroarpa, often as large as a hen's egg. When young the seed contains a fluid, which gradually hardness into a whitish, close-grained, albuminous substance, resembling the finest ivory in texture and color, whence it is called vegetable ivory. It is wrought into various articles, as buttons, chessmen, etc. The palm is found in New Grenada. A smaller kind is the fruit of the Phytephas microarpa. The nuts are known in commerce as Corosso nuts.
Ivory palm (Bot.), the palm tree which produces ivory nuts.
Ivory shell (Zo["o]l.), any species of Eburna, a genus of marine gastropod shells, having a smooth surface, usually white with red or brown spots.
Vegetable ivory, the meat of the ivory nut. See Ivory nut (above).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (ivory English) 2 (context plurale tantum English) The keys of a piano. 3 (context plurale tantum English) The teeth.
Wikipedia
Ivories may refer to:
- Ivory carvings, objects made from ivory
- Piano keys, slang as keys were made from ivory until the 1950s
- Dice, slang as dice were made from ivory from ancient times into the 20th century
- Teeth, slang as teeth are composed of much of the same material as ivory
Usage examples of "ivories".
Now the long yellow ivories were a mortal danger to him, as well as a source of discomfort and pain.
Cautiously, the little group of hunters went forward through the forest and they found him kneeling, his forelegs folded neatly under his chest, his long, yellow ivories propping up the dusty wrinkled old head, still facing down the slope as though defiant even in death.
The exact impression of the huge pads had been cast in the holes as though in plaster of Paris, each crack and fissure in the skin of the sole, each irregularity, even the outline of the blunt toe nails were there in precise detail, and at one place where the soft earth had been unable to bear his weight and the elephant had sunk almost belly deep, he had left the impression of his long thick ivories in the earth when he had used them to push himself free.
The bull was on top of him, blotting out the rainsodden sky, the long yellow ivories raised like roofbeams over his head, and the trunk already uncoiling to reach down and snatch Zouga up.
Twenty paces away the elephant knelt over Matthew's decapitated body and drove one of the long yellow ivories through his belly.
The two huge elephant tusks formed a perfect frame with their curved yellow ivories for the third package.
He escorted Michelangelo through the palace to show him painted diptychs, carved wooden tablets, silver and gold bowls, coins, terra-cotta heads, ivories, bronzes and small carved marbles.
The ‘Brulskers would sooner part with their girl-concubines than their timber, true enough, but the lust of Lord Logben for strange ivories was a greater desire than either of those, so that when with low drummings the Kleshite trading scow had put into ‘Brulsk's black harbor and the Mouser had been among the first to board her and had spotted the behemoth tusk amongst the Kleshite trading treasures, he had bought it at once in exchange for a double-fist lump of musk-odorous ambergris, common stuff in Rime Isle but more precious than rubies in Klesh, so that they were unable to resist it.
Only when the Kleshites had added their pleas to the Mouser's demands that the ‘Brulskers sell him timber, offering for the unique snow serpent skin not only their lesser ivories but half their spices, and the Mouser had threatened to sink the tusk in the bottomless bay rather than sell it for less than wood, had the ‘Brulskers been forced by their Lord to yield up a quarter shipload of seasoned straight timber, as grudgingly as the Mouser had seemed to part with the tusk—whereafter all the trading (even in timber) had gone more easily.
A free supply of high-sensitivity ivories for the maestra of Studio Neo.
Jim Nichols’ kikituks might be just what a wealthy New Zealand collector of primitive ivories was looking for.
Rainbow bolts of cloth, carved ivories from Vendhya, brass bowls from Shadizar's own metalworkers, lustrous pearls from the Western Sea and paste "gems" guaranteed to be genuine, all changed hands in the space of a heartbeat.
In another second I saw the huge red jaws and gleaming ivories close with a crunch on the frail craft, taking an enormous mouthful out of its side and capsizing it.