English Dictionary: ivory gull | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Flower-de-luce \Flow"er-de-luce"\, n. [Corrupted fr. fleur-de-lis.] (Bot.) A genus of perennial herbs ({Iris}) with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north temperate zone. Some of the best known are {Iris Germanica}, {I. Florentina}, {I. Persica}, {I. sambucina}, and the American {I. versicolor}, {I. prismatica}, etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Flower-de-luce \Flow"er-de-luce"\, n. [Corrupted fr. fleur-de-lis.] (Bot.) A genus of perennial herbs ({Iris}) with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north temperate zone. Some of the best known are {Iris Germanica}, {I. Florentina}, {I. Persica}, {I. sambucina}, and the American {I. versicolor}, {I. prismatica}, etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Flower-de-luce \Flow"er-de-luce"\, n. [Corrupted fr. fleur-de-lis.] (Bot.) A genus of perennial herbs ({Iris}) with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north temperate zone. Some of the best known are {Iris Germanica}, {I. Florentina}, {I. Persica}, {I. sambucina}, and the American {I. versicolor}, {I. prismatica}, etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ivory \I"vo*ry\, n.; pl. {Ivories}. [OE. ivori, F. ivoire, fr. L. eboreus made of ivory, fr. ebur, eboris, ivory, cf. Skr. ibha elephant. Cf. {Eburnean}.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
1. 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. 2. The tusks themselves of the elephant, etc. 3. Any carving executed in ivory. --Mollett. 4. pl. Teeth; as, to show one's ivories. [Slang] {Ivory black}. See under {Black}, n. {Ivory gull} (Zo[94]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[94]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). | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
1. 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. 2. The tusks themselves of the elephant, etc. 3. Any carving executed in ivory. --Mollett. 4. pl. Teeth; as, to show one's ivories. [Slang] {Ivory black}. See under {Black}, n. {Ivory gull} (Zo[94]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[94]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). | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Iburg A program by Christopher W. Fraser David R. Hanson Iburg is compatible with {Burg}. Both programs accept a cost-augmented tree {grammar} and emit a {C} program that discovers an optimal parse of trees in the language described by the grammar. They have been used to construct fast optimal instruction selectors for use in code generation. Burg uses {BURS}. Iburg's matchers do {dynamic programming} at compile time. {(ftp://ftp.cs.princeton.edu/pub/iburg.tar.Z)}. (1993-02-10) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
IPARS {International Programmable Airline Reservation System} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Iverson's Language {APL}, which went unnamed for many years. [Sammet 1969, p.770]. (1994-11-16) |