ebony's Usage Examples:

ebony with boxwood inlays.

Markham, in his introduction to the narrative of Clavijo's embassy, states that his body "was embalmed with musk and rose water, wrapped in linen, laid in an ebony coffin and sent to Samarkand, where it was buried.

The neighbouring forests furnish ebony, molave, tindalo and other very valuable hardwoods.

"Rubber, ebony and other timber, cocoa and gum copal, come next in importance.

Mais apres l' Attila Hola!"Other wild fruits are the so-called Cape gooseberry (not native to Natal) and the kaw apple or Dingaan apricot, which grows on a species of ebony tree.

These instruments have ebony pegs (as well as fingerboard, nut ' saddle ), which enables easier and more accurate tuning.

Agilawood, the camphor tree, and ebony are also found in smaller quantities.

And the feeling of the age finds greater scope in private statues, many of which have a personal fascination about them, as in the seated figures at Cairo and Florence, and the freer work in wood, of which the ebony negress (Plate IV.

There are, too, valuable timber trees, such as the yellow pine (Podocarpus elongatus), stinkwood (Ocotea), sneezewood or Cape ebony (Pteroxylon utile) and ironwood.

good black ebony has no discernable grain and has an excellent finish direct from the tooling.

In southern Kordofan and in the higher parts of the Bahr-el-Ghazal the silag and ebony are also common, as well as African mahogany (homraya, Khaya senegalensis) and other timber trees.

There are also timber trees such as mahogany, ebony, teak, lignum vitae, African cedars and planes, while oil, borassus and bamboo palms are abundant.

The great hardness of teak is due to the silica deposited in the heart-wood, and the special coloring matters of various woods, such as satinwood, ebony, 'c.

Synonyms:

soot black, sable, pitch black, black, jet black, coal black, blackness, inkiness,

Antonyms:

uncolored, legal, fortunate, honorable, white,