Ebony
['eb(ə)nɪ] or ['ɛbəni]
Definition
(noun.) tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork.
(noun.) hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in cabinetwork and for piano keys.
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Definition
(n.) A hard, heavy, and durable wood, which admits of a fine polish or gloss. The usual color is black, but it also occurs red or green.
(a.) Made of ebony, or resembling ebony; black; as, an ebony countenance.
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Definition
n. a kind of wood almost as heavy and hard as stone usually black admitting of a fine polish.—adj. made of ebony: black as ebony.—v.t. Eb′onise to make furniture look like ebony.—ns. Eb′onist a worker in ebony; Eb′onite vulcanite (see under Vulcan).
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If you dream of ebony furniture or other articles of ebony, you will have many distressing disputes and quarrels in your home.
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Examples
- Warily he stepped, his slender lance ever ready, his long oval shield firmly grasped in his left hand close to his sleek ebony body. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The golden-haired, white-skinned therns battling with desperate courage in hand-to-hand conflict with their ebony-skinned foemen. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- His books had portrayed the NEGRO, but how different had been the dull, dead print to this sleek thing of ebony, pulsing with life. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- To an eye above them their two faces would have appeared amid the expanse like two pearls on a table of ebony. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Simultaneously my free hand shot out for the black throat, just within reach, and the ebony finger tightened on the trigger. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Against the ebony background of his skin they blazed out with a peculiarly accentuated effulgence. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He had a gold watch, and a gold curb chain with large gold seals; and he carried a pliant ebony cane with a gold top. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- In making a high-grade cue, a choice piece of imported wood, such as ebony, mahogany, or rosewood, is cut into blocks about three inches square and twenty inches long. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In 1800 a Mr. Watt of London produced one, on which he carved medallions and figures in ivory and ebony. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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