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The ivory gull .

IVORYTYPE
A picture produced by superposing a very light print, rendered translucent by varnish, and tinted upon the back, upon a stronger print, so as to give the effect of a photograph in natural colors; -- called also hellenotype. Knight.
IVORY
Teeth; as, to show one's ivories. Ivory black. See under Black, n. -- Ivory gull , a white Arctic gull . -- Ivory nut , the nut of a species of palm, the Phytephas macroarpa, often as large as a hen's egg. When young the seed contains a fluid,
IVORY-BILL
A large, handsome, North American woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), having a large, sharp, ivory-colored beak. Its general color is glossy black, with white secondaries, and a white dorsal stripe. The male has a large, scarlet crest. It is now