Definition of ivory

• n. - 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.
• n. - The tusks themselves of the elephant, etc.
• n. - Any carving executed in ivory.
• n. - Teeth; as, to show one's ivories.