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- English Word Ivies Definition of Ivy
- English Word Ivoride Definition A composition resembling ivory in appearance and used as a substitute for it.
- English Word Ivories Definition of Ivory
- English Word Ivory Definition 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.
- English Word Ivory Definition The tusks themselves of the elephant, etc.
- English Word Ivory Definition Any carving executed in ivory.
- English Word Ivory Definition Teeth; as, to show one's ivories.
- English Word Ivory-bill Definition 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.
- English Word Ivorytype Definition A picture produced by superposing a very light print, rendered translucent by varnish, and tinted upon the back, upon a stronger print, so as to give the effect of a photograph in natural colors; -- called also hellenotype.
- English Word Ivy Definition A plant of the genus Hedera (H. helix), common in Europe. Its leaves are evergreen, dark, smooth, shining, and mostly five-pointed; the flowers yellowish and small; the berries black or yellow. The stem clings to walls and trees by rootlike fibers.
- English Word Ivy-mantled Definition Covered with ivy.
- English Word Iwis Definition Indeed; truly. See Ywis.
- English Word Ixia Definition A South African bulbous plant of the Iris family, remarkable for the brilliancy of its flowers.
- English Word Ixodes Definition A genus of parasitic Acarina, which includes various species of ticks. See Tick, the insect.
- English Word Ixodian Definition A tick of the genus Ixodes, or the family Ixodidae.
- English Word Ixtle Definition Alt. of Ixtli
- English Word Ixtli Definition A Mexican name for a variety of Agave rigida, which furnishes a strong coarse fiber; also, the fiber itself, which is called also pita, and Tampico fiber.
- English Word Izard Definition A variety of the chamois found in the Pyrenees.
- English Word Izedi Definition One of an Oriental religious sect which worships Satan or the Devil.
- English Word Izedism Definition The religion of the Izedis.