Teeth; dice.
To show one’s ivories. To display one’s teeth.
To wash one’s ivories. To rinse the mouth; to drink.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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