1. Noun
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.
2. Noun
The tusks themselves of the elephant, etc.
3. Noun
Any carving executed in ivory.
4. Noun
Teeth; as, to show one's ivories.
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