What is the name meaning of IVORY. Phrases containing IVORY
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IVORY
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American, Australian, British, Christian, English, Latin
Pure; Creamy-white Color; Hard Tusk; Hard Tusk Used for Carving Fine Art and Jewellery
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Biblical
House of the tooth, or of ivory, or of sleep.
Girl/Female
Biblical
House of the tooth, or of ivory, or of sleep.
Boy/Male
Biblical
In the tooth; in ivory.
Surname or Lastname
English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Ivry-la-Bataille in Eure, northern France.Scottish : when not of the same origin as 1, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Iamharach (see McIver).
Girl/Female
Australian, German, Greek
White as Milk; Ivory Coloured
Girl/Female
Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
White as Ivory
Biblical
in the tooth, in ivory
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English American
White; pure. Reference to creamy-white color of ivory; or to the hard tusk used for carving fine...
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : variant of Ivory.
Girl/Female
Biblical
Tooth, ivory, change.
Surname or Lastname
English, Scottish, French, and German
English, Scottish, French, and German : from Middle English, Old French, Middle High German olifant ‘elephant’ (medieval Latin olifantus, from classical Latin elephantus, Greek elephas, genitive elephantos). The circumstances in which this word was applied as a surname are not clear. It may have been a nickname for a large, lumbering individual, or a metonymic occupational name for a worker in ivory, or a habitational name from a house distinguished by the sign of an elephant.
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Greek Latin
Of Demeter. Demeter is the mythological Greek goddess of corn and harvest. She withdraws for the...
Boy/Male
Tamil
The monkey God of ramayana (Son of the wind God; Devout of Rama and a leading warrior among monkey tribe)
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Arabic, Muslim
Evidence; Clear; Manifest; Present; Attested; Proved
Female
Thai/Siamese
Thai name PEN-CHAN means "full moon."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Gaultney. The surname is not found in the U.K.; in the U.S., it is found chiefly in AL.
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Hindu, Indian
Big Sky
Girl/Female
Hindu
Decorative, Name of a river
Boy/Male
Hebrew Spanish
God will multiply.
Boy/Male
Native American
Arrow.
Boy/Male
Hindu
One whop confers happiness
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n.
An ancient horn, made of ivory.
n.
A small, hard, elastic plate, as of ivory, bone, or rubber, placed in contact with body to receive the blow, in examination by mediate percussion.
n.
A mathematical instrument, consisting of a slip of wood, ivory, or metal, with one or more sets of spaces graduated and numbered on its surface, for measuring or laying off distances, etc., as in drawing, plotting, and the like. See Gunter's scale.
n.
The ivory gull (Larus eburneus).
n.
A Central American name for the ivory nut.
n.
See Ivorytype.
a.
A measuring instrument consisting of a graduated bar of wood, ivory, metal, or the like, which is usually marked so as to show inches and fractions of an inch, and jointed so that it may be folded compactly.
v. t.
To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
n.
A small piece of marble, glass, earthenware, or the like, having a square, or nearly square, face, used by the ancients for mosaic, as for making pavements, for ornamenting walls, and like purposes; also, a similar piece of ivory, bone, wood, etc., used as a ticket of admission to theaters, or as a certificate for successful gladiators, and as a token for various other purposes.
n.
An instrument of metal, ivory, etc., used for scraping the skin at the bath.
n.
A very large marine mammal (Trichecus rosmarus) of the Seal family, native of the Arctic Ocean. The male has long and powerful tusks descending from the upper jaw. It uses these in procuring food and in fighting. It is hunted for its oil, ivory, and skin. It feeds largely on mollusks. Called also morse.
n.
Any carving executed in ivory.
n.
One of a number of small pieces or pegs of wood, ivory, bone, or other material, for playing a game, or for counting the score in a game, as in cribbage. In the plural (spilikins
n. sing. & pl.
Raspings of ivory, hartshorn, metals, or other hard substance.
n.
Inlaid work; work inlaid with pieces of wood, shells, ivory, and the like, of several colors.
n.
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.
v. t.
To form in a lathe; to shape or fashion (anything) by applying a cutting tool to it while revolving; as, to turn the legs of stools or tables; to turn ivory or metal.
v. t.
To ornament, as shells, ivory, etc., by engraving, and (usually) rubbing pigments into the incised lines.
n.
A movable piece of ivory, lead, or other material, connected with the bellows of an organ, that gives notice, by its position, when the wind is exhausted.
v. i.
To undergo the process of turning on a lathe; as, ivory turns well.