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Webster 1913 Edition


Eburnine

Eb′ur-nine

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Adj.
Of or pertaining to ivory.
“[She] read from tablet eburnine.”
Sir W. Scott.

Definition 2024


eburnine

eburnine

English

Adjective

eburnine (comparative more eburnine, superlative most eburnine)

  1. (rare) Like ivory.
    • 1958, Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar:
      On a square of grey silk lay several objects with a direct relationship to our brimming thoughts – the great hatpin with its ugly blue stone head, and the eburnine ring of my lover which I could not see even now without a pang.