Definitions for "Ivory"
Keywords:  tusk, elephant, walrus, dentine, creamy
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.
The tusks themselves of the elephant, etc.
The opaque, creamy white, hard, fine-grained, modified dentine that composes the upper incisor teeth (tusks) of an elephant, walrus, mammoth, or mastodon. Ivory is composed of curved layers of dentine alternating in shade, and intersecting one another. The resulting lozenge-shaped structure is elastic and finely grained. It is one of the most beautiful and expensive materials for mounting bagpipes.
To dream of ivory, is favorable to the fortune of the dreamer. To see huge pieces of ivory being carried, denotes financial success and pleasures unalloyed.
Keywords:  ecru, eggshell, cream, color, known
Color also known as cream, ecru, or eggshell.
a recent form of Leucistic (see). Produced by The Snake Keeper.
Keywords:  carving, executed
Any carving executed in ivory.
Keywords:  teeth, one
Teeth; as, to show one's ivories.
Keywords:  injury, physical, protects, body, one
Protects one's physical body from injury.