Ivory

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Any carving executed in ivory.

II. Ivory ·noun Teeth; as, to show one's ivories.

III. Ivory ·noun The tusks themselves of the elephant, ·etc.

IV. Ivory ·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.