pos>prop. n. An ideal personification of the typical Russian or of the Russian people; -- used as “John Bull” is used for the typical Englishman. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ From Ivy. ] Overgrown with ivy. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A composition resembling ivory in appearance and used as a substitute for it. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.;
☞ Ivory is the name commercially given not only to the substance constituting the tusks of the elephant, but also to that of the tusks of the hippopotamus and walrus, the hornlike tusk of the narwhal, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]
Ivory black.
Ivory gull (Zool.),
Ivory nut (Bot.),
Ivory palm (Bot.),
Ivory shell (Zool.),
Vegetable ivory,
n. (Photog.) A picture produced by superposing a very light print, rendered translucent by varnish, and tinted upon the back, upon a stronger print, so as to give the effect of a photograph in natural colors; -- called also
n. A battle (1590) in which the Huguenots under
n.;
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The clasping ivy where to climb. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
American ivy. (Bot.)
English ivy (Bot.),
German ivy (Bot.),
Ground ivy. (Bot.)
Ivy bush. (Bot.)
Ivy owl (Zool.),
Ivy tod (Bot.),
Japanese ivy (Bot.),
Poison ivy (Bot.),
To pipe in an ivy leaf,
West Indian ivy,
a. Covered with ivy. [ 1913 Webster ]