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Webster 1913 Edition
Ebon
Eb′on
,Adj.
1.
Consisting of ebony.
2.
Like ebony, especially in color; black; dark.
Night, sable goddess! from her
ebon
throne. Young.
Eb′on
,Noun.
Ebony.
[Poetic]
“Framed of ebon and ivory.” Sir W. Scott.
Webster 1828 Edition
Ebon
EB'ON
,Adj.
Definition 2025
ebon
ebon
English
Alternative forms
- hebene (obsolete)
Noun
ebon (plural ebons)
- (now poetic) Ebony; an ebony tree.
Adjective
ebon (comparative more ebon, superlative most ebon)
- (poetic) Made of ebony.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.5:
- “A stranger knight,” sayd he, “unknowne by name, / But knowne by fame, and by an Hebene speare […].”
- 1745, Edward Young, Night-Thoughts, I:
- Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, / In rayless majesty, now stretches forth / Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumb'ring world.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.5:
- (poetic) Black in colour.