English Dictionary: ivory palm | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Indris \In"dris\, Indri \In"dri\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Any lemurine animal of the genus {Indris}. Note: Several species are known, all of them natives of Madagascar, as the diadem indris ({I. diadema}), which has a white ruff around the forehead; the woolly indris ({I. laniger}); and the short-tailed or black indris ({I. brevicaudatus}), which is black, varied with gray. | |
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]: | |
Black \Black\, n. 1. That which is destitute of light or whiteness; the darkest color, or rather a destitution of all color; as, a cloth has a good black. Black is the badge of hell, The hue of dungeons, and the suit of night. --Shak. 2. A black pigment or dye. 3. A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races. 4. A black garment or dress; as, she wears black; pl. (Obs.) Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery. Friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like show death terrible. --Bacon. That was the full time they used to wear blacks for the death of their fathers. --Sir T. North. 5. The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black. The black or sight of the eye. --Sir K. Digby. 6. A stain; a spot; a smooch. Defiling her white lawn of chastity with ugly blacks of lust. --Rowley. {Black and white}, writing or print; as, I must have that statement in black and white. {Blue black}, a pigment of a blue black color. {Ivory black}, a fine kind of animal charcoal prepared by calcining ivory or bones. When ground it is the chief ingredient of the ink used in copperplate printing. {Berlin black}. See under {Berlin}. | |
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]: | |
Porcelain \Por"ce*lain\ (277), n. [F. porcelaine, It. porcellana, orig., the porcelain shell, or Venus shell (Cypr[91]a porcellana), from a dim. fr. L. porcus pig, probably from the resemblance of the shell in shape to a pig's back. Porcelain was called after this shell, either on account of its smoothness and whiteness, or because it was believed to be made from it. See {Pork}.] A fine translucent or semitransculent kind of earthenware, made first in China and Japan, but now also in Europe and America; -- called also {China}, or {China ware}. Porcelain, by being pure, is apt to break. --Dryden. {Ivory porcelain}, porcelain with a surface like ivory, produced by depolishing. See {Depolishing}. {Porcelain clay}. See under {Clay}. {Porcelain crab} (Zo[94]l.), any crab of the genus {Porcellana} and allied genera (family {Porcellanid[91]}). They have a smooth, polished carapace. {Porcelain jasper}. (Min.) See {Porcelanite}. {Porcelain printing}, the transferring of an impression of an engraving to porcelain. {Porcelain shell} (Zo[94]l.), a cowry. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ivory-bill \I"vo*ry-bill`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) 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. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Iberia Parish, LA (parish, FIPS 45) Location: 29.79360 N, 91.78493 W Population (1990): 68297 (25472 housing units) Area: 1489.7 sq km (land), 1180.4 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Iberville, LA Zip code(s): 70776 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Iberville Parish, LA (parish, FIPS 47) Location: 30.26293 N, 91.34932 W Population (1990): 31049 (11352 housing units) Area: 1602.4 sq km (land), 88.6 sq km (water) |