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ebony (medicine)


ebony


Origin: F. Ebene, L. Ebenus, fr. Gr.; prob. Of Semitic origin; cf. Heb. Hobnim, pl. Cf. Ebon.

A hard, heavy, and durable wood, which admits of a fine polish or gloss. The usual colour is black, but it also occurs red or green.

The finest black ebony is the heartwood of Diospyros reticulata, of the Mauritius. Other species of the same genus (D. Ebenum, Melanoxylon, etc), furnish the ebony of the East Indies and Ceylon. The West Indian green ebony is from a leguminous tree (Brya Ebenus), and from the Excaecaria glandulosa.

Source: Websters Dictionary


tumbler (iou)



tumbler noun. ME.
[from TUMBLE verb + -ER1.]
a. An acrobat, esp. one who performs somersaults, leaps, etc. ME.
J. S. Blackie Expert tumblers in the circus.
b. A person who tumbles down or falls; spec. an inexperienced window-cleaner. joc. E20.
a. A dog like a small greyhound, which tumbles and turns to attract its prey, formerly used to catch rabbits. obsolete exc. Hist. E16.
b. transf. A person who allures others into the hands of swindlers. slang. E17-L18.
a. techn. A thing that rotates or acts as a pivot; spec. (a) a notched pivoted plate in a gunlock through which the mainspring acts on the hammer; (b) a pivoted piece in a lock which holds the bolt until lifted by a key; (c) a revolving barrel used in tanning skins; (d) a tumbling-barrel. M16.
Atlantic He heard the stealthy tick of keys and tumblers.
b. Nautical. A device fitted on a mast, with a hook, ring, or swivel to which something may be attached. M19.
c. More fully tumbler-drier. = tumble-drier s.v. TUMBLE verb. M20.
A person who tosses things into confusion or disorder; a muddler. rare. L16-L17.
= TUMBREL 2, 2b. slang & dial. E17.
a. A drinking-vessel, orig. having a rounded or pointed base, so that it could not stand upright unsupported. Now, a tapering cylindrical, or barrel-shaped, drinking-vessel, esp. made of glass, with a heavy flat base and no handle or foot. M17.
J. Carew A tumbler of pale purple Wine. M. Keane Long..tumblers, were for whisky-and-sodas.
b. The contents of a tumbler; a tumblerful. M19.
c. A toy, usu. representing a grotesque squatting figure, with a weighted rounded base so that it rocks but always regains position when touched or pushed. rare. M19.
Hist. In the game of gleek, the six of trumps. L17.
A porpoise. L17-E19.
A variety of domestic pigeon which repeatedly turns over backwards in flight. Also tumbler pigeon. L17.
P. Carter Mr Black had all sorts of birds: rollers, tumblers, doves.
A detached mass or piece of rock; a rolled stone or boulder. Now dial. M18.
Comb.: tumbler-cart = sense 5 above; tumbler-cup a cup with a rounded base (cf. sense 6a above); tumbler-drier: see sense 3c above; tumbler-glass = sense 6a above; tumbler pigeon: see sense 9 above.
tumblerful noun as much as a tumbler will hold E19.