What is the name meaning of IVORY. Phrases containing IVORY
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IVORY
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : variant of Ivory.
Girl/Female
Australian, German, Greek
White as Milk; Ivory Coloured
Girl/Female
American, Australian, British, Christian, English, Latin
Pure; Creamy-white Color; Hard Tusk; Hard Tusk Used for Carving Fine Art and Jewellery
Girl/Female
Biblical
House of the tooth, or of ivory, or of sleep.
Biblical
in the tooth, in ivory
Girl/Female
Biblical
House of the tooth, or of ivory, or of sleep.
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).
Boy/Male
Biblical
In the tooth; in ivory.
Girl/Female
Biblical
Tooth, ivory, change.
Girl/Female
English American
White; pure. Reference to creamy-white color of ivory; or to the hard tusk used for carving fine...
Girl/Female
Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
White as Ivory
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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Boy/Male
Tamil
Lord Muruga and Vishnu
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Castor.Americanized spelling of German Kaster.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Haugh.German : topographic name from Middle High German houfe ‘heap’, e.g. of stones, or in southern Germany, a nickname from the same word in the sense ‘crowd’, ‘group of soldiers’.
Boy/Male
Muslim
Sword of dream
Boy/Male
Tamil
Bowed down, Modest, To bow in a humble greeting
Male
French
French form of Roman Latin Aurelianus, AURELIEN means "golden."
Girl/Female
Indian
Noblel, Harmony
Boy/Male
Hindu
Bull
Girl/Female
Muslim
Happy, Pleased
Boy/Male
Muslim
Diligent
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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.
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.
v. t.
To ornament, as shells, ivory, etc., by engraving, and (usually) rubbing pigments into the incised lines.
n.
A Central American name for the ivory nut.
n.
An ancient horn, made of ivory.
v. t.
To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
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.
n.
An instrument of metal, ivory, etc., used for scraping the skin at the bath.
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.
Any carving executed in ivory.
v. i.
To undergo the process of turning on a lathe; as, ivory turns well.
n.
The ivory gull (Larus eburneus).
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.
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.
See Ivorytype.
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.
Inlaid work; work inlaid with pieces of wood, shells, ivory, and the like, of several colors.
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. sing. & pl.
Raspings of ivory, hartshorn, metals, or other hard substance.