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Definition of Ebonies
1. ebony [n] - See also: ebony
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ebonies
Literary usage of Ebonies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial by Edward Balfour (1885)
"The ebonies of South-Eastern Asia are obtained from several species of Diospyros,
Dal- bergia, and Bauhinia, growing in the Mauritius, Ceylon, ..."
2. A Critique of the Theory of Evolution by Thomas Hunt Morgan, Louis Clark Vanuxem Foundation (1916)
"If the ebony, then in the second generation we count three ebonies to one sooty,
putting the hybrids with the ebonies. If the dominant is the sooty then we ..."
3. A Text-book of Wood by Herbert Stone (1921)
"They are very characteristic of the ebonies, where they may be seen with the lens
on a vertical section like little strings of pearls. ..."
4. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1880)
"When a man's ivories have become ebonies the New Guinea ladies pronounce him very
handsome. The burial customs vary in the different districts. ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1861)
"... snuff-boxes, puzzles, etc. These are exhibited by the Madras Local Committee."
All these woods can be used for veneer, and the ebonies are, probably, ..."
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