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Definition of Ice bear

1. Noun. White bear of Arctic regions.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ice Bear

Literary usage of Ice bear

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Standard Library of Natural History: Embracing Living Animals of Thw by Charles John Cornish (1908)
"The ice- bear has been met swimming at a distance of eighty miles from land, ... An ice-bear was once found feeding on the body of a white whale, ..."

2. Pioneer History of Milwaukee by James Smith Buck (1886)
"William Walton—The Reliance Works, Sketch — Edward P. Allis, Sketch—The Ice Bear—Arthur Bates, Sketch — K, D. Hoi- ton Struck with a ..."

3. The Aerial Age: A Thousand Miles by Airship Over the Atlantic Ocean; Airship by Walter Wellman (1911)
"Several polar bear—ice-bear the Norwegians always call them—we killed on the ... One day at luncheon, sitting on our boat and sledges, we saw an ice-bear ..."

4. The BBC Natural History Unit's Wildlife Specials by David Attenborough, Keith Scholey, B.B.C.Natural History Unit (1997)
"Hugh M//« an location for Kingdom of the ice bear. waiting to film polar bear cubs at Svalbard in March 1984. we were frequently to regret it, ..."

5. Festus: A Poem by Philip James Bailey (1853)
"... No more than ice bear blood-heat in the shade. WALTER. We can but try. CHARLES. Remember what I told you, And think upon the bright eyes that behold you ..."

6. The Medical Times and Gazette (1861)
"Dr. Küchenmeister concluded that the infection had taken place from the fish with which the ice-bear was fed. Soon after the first part of the worm had come ..."

7. The Oxonian in Norway: Or, Notes of Excursions in that Country in 1854-1855 by Frederick Metcalfe (1856)
"... Hotel — The Ice-bear — Walrus Hunting— Spitzbergen—Laws respecting Dogs—Ideas prevalent in the Cambridge Fens respecting Dog-bites. ..."

8. Beyond Petsora Eastward: Two Summer Voyages to Novaya Zemlya and the Islands by Henry J. Pearson, Henry Wemyss Feilden (1899)
"And then, as ill-luck would have it, Curtis and I crossed over to the larger island, for we missed our one chance of seeing an Ice-Bear. ..."

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