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adj. 1. feeding on bees; bee-eating. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. aurum gold + vorare to devour. ] Gold-devouring. [ R. ] H. Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. bacca berry + vorare to devour. ] (Zool.) Eating, or subsisting on, berries; as, baccivorous birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. calx lime + vorare to devour. ] Eroding, or eating into, limestone. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., neut. pl. from L. carnivorus. See Carnivorous. ] (Zoöl.) An order of Mammallia including the lion, tiger, wolf bear, seal, etc. They are adapted by their structure to feed upon flesh, though some of them, as the bears, also eat vegetable food. The teeth are large and sharp, suitable for cutting flesh, and the jaws powerful. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Greediness of appetite for flesh. [ Sportive. ] Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. carnivore. ] (Zoöl.) One of the Carnivora. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. carnivorus; caro, carnis, flesh + varare to devour. ] Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: (a) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; (b) to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; (c) to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. culter, cultri, knife + vorare to devour. ] Devouring knives; swallowing, or pretending to swallow, knives; -- applied to persons who have swallowed, or have seemed to swallow, knives with impunity. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. divorce, L. divortium, fr. divortere, divertere, to turn different ways, to separate. See Divert. ] 1. (Law) (a) A legal dissolution of the marriage contract by a court or other body having competent authority. This is properly a divorce, and called, technically, divorce a vinculo matrimonii. “from the bond of matrimony.” (b) The separation of a married woman from the bed and board of her husband -- divorce a mensa et toro (or a mensa et thoro), “from bed and board”. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The decree or writing by which marriage is dissolved. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Separation; disunion of things closely united. [ 1913 Webster ]

To make divorce of their incorporate league. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. That which separates. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bill of divorce. See under Bill. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Divorced p. pr. & vb. n. Divorcing. ] [ Cf. F. divorcer. See Divorce, n. ] 1. To dissolve the marriage contract of, either wholly or partially; to separate by divorce. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To separate or disunite; to sunder. [ 1913 Webster ]

It [ a word ] was divorced from its old sense. Earle. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make away; to put away. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nothing but death
Shall e'er divorce my dignities. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being divorced. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having a marriage legally terminated and having not remarried. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A person divorced. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Incapable of being divorced or separated; free from divorce. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Dissolution of the marriage tie; divorce; separation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let him write her a divorcement. Deut. xxiv. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

The divorcement of our written from our spoken language. R. Morris. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The person or cause that produces or effects a divorce. Drummond. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Divorceable. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having power to divorce; tending to divorce. “This divorcive law.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. equus horse + vorare to eat greedily. ] Feeding on horseflesh; as, equivorous Tartars. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Frugivorous. ] (Zool.) The fruit bate; a group of the Cheiroptera, comprising the bats which live on fruits. See Eruit bat, under Fruit. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. frux, frugis, fruit + vorare to devour.: cf. F. frugivore. ] Feeding on fruit, as birds and other animals. Pennant. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Fucus + L. vorare to eat. ] (Zool.) Eating fucus or other seaweeds. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. fungus + vorare to eat greedily: cf. F. fongivore. ] (Zool.) Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. gramen, graminis, grass + vorare to eat greedily. ] Feeding or subsisting on grass, and the like food; -- said of horses, cattle, and other animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. granum grain + vorare to devour: cf. F. granivore. ] Eating grain; feeding or subsisting on seeds; as, granivorous birds. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. herba herb + vorare to devour. ] (Zool.) An extensive division of Mammalia. It formerly included the Proboscidea, Hyracoidea, Perissodactyla, and Artiodactyla, but by later writers it is generally restricted to the two latter groups (Ungulata). They feed almost exclusively upon vegetation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. herbivore. ] (Zool.) One of the Herbivora. P. H. Gosse. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Eating plants; of or pertaining to the Herbivora. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., from L. insectum an insect + vorare to devour. ] (Zool.) 1. An order of mammals which feed principally upon insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ They are mostly of small size, and their molar teeth have sharp cusps. Most of the species burrow in the earth, and many of those of cold climates hibernate in winter. The order includes the moles, shrews, hedgehogs, tanrecs, and allied animals, also the colugo. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A division of the Chiroptera, including the common or insect-eating bats. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Insectivores [ F. ] (Zool.) One of the Insectivora. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Insectivora. ] Feeding or subsisting on insects; carnivorous. The term is applied: (a) to plants which have some special adaptation for catching and digesting insects, as the sundew, Venus's flytrap, Sarracenia, etc. (b) to the Insectivora, and many bats, birds, and reptiles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A composition resembling ivory in appearance and used as a substitute for it. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Ivories [ OE. ivori, F. ivoire, fr. L. eboreus made of ivory, fr. ebur, eboris, ivory, cf. Skr. ibha elephant. Cf. Eburnean. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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 ]

2. The tusks themselves of the elephant, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Any carving executed in ivory. Mollett. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. pl. Teeth; as, to show one's ivories. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Ivory black. See under Black, n. --
Ivory gull (Zool.), a white Arctic gull (Larus eburneus). --
Ivory nut (Bot.), the nut of a species of palm, the Phytephas macroarpa, often as large as a hen's egg. When young the seed contains a fluid, which gradually hardness into a whitish, close-grained, albuminous substance, resembling the finest ivory in texture and color, whence it is called vegetable ivory. It is wrought into various articles, as buttons, chessmen, etc. The palm is found in New Grenada. A smaller kind is the fruit of the Phytephas microarpa. The nuts are known in commerce as Corosso nuts. --
Ivory palm (Bot.), the palm tree which produces ivory nuts. --
Ivory shell (Zool.), any species of Eburna, a genus of marine gastropod shells, having a smooth surface, usually white with red or brown spots. --
Vegetable ivory, the meat of the ivory nut. See Ivory nut (above). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A large, handsome, black-and-white North American woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), having a large, sharp, ivory-colored beak. Its general color is glossy black, with white secondaries, and a white dorsal stripe. The male has a large, scarlet crest. It is now rare, and found only in the Gulf States and Cuba.
Syn. -- ivory-billed woodpecker, Campephilus principalis. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 hellenotype. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. ] Malignity. [ R. ] Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. mucus slime, mucus + vorare to devour. ] (Zool.) An insect which feeds on mucus, or the sap of plants, as certain Diptera, of the tribe Mucivora. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A gray flycatcher of Southwestern U. S. and Mexico and Central America having a long forked tail and white breast and salmon and scarlet markings; the scissortailed flycatcher.
Syn. -- scissortail, scissortailed flycatcher. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Omnivorous. ] (Zool.) A group of ungulate mammals including the hog and the hippopotamus. The term is also sometimes applied to the bears, and to certain passerine birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. omnivorus; omnis all + vorate to eat greedily. See Voracious. ] 1. All-devouring; eating everything indiscriminately; as, omnivorous vanity; an omnivorous intellect. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. Specifically: (Zool.), Eating both animal and vegetable food. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Om*niv"o*rous*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

a. [ L. os, ossis, bone + vorare to devour: cf. F. ossivore. ] Feeding on bones; eating bones; as, ossivorous quadrupeds. Derham. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. panis bread + vorare to devour. ] Eating bread; subsisting on bread. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Phyto- + L. vorare to eat greedily. ] Feeding on plants or herbage; phytophagous; as, phytivorous animals. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. piscis a fish + vorare to devour: cf. F. piscivore. ] (Zool.) Feeding or subsisting on fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Pupivorous. ] (Zool.) A group of parasitic Hymenoptera, including the ichneumon flies, which destroy the larvæ and pupæ of insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pupa + L. vorare to devour. ] (Zool.) Feeding on the pupæ of insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eng. Law) Revival of a suit which is abated by the death or marriage of any of the parties, -- done by a bill of revivor. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]