ebon

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: eb=on

CIDE DICTIONARY

ebon, a. 

•  Consisting of ebony.  [1913 Webster]
•  Like ebony, especially in color; black; dark.  [1913 Webster]

  "Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne."  [1913 Webster]

ebon, n. 

 Ebony.  Sir W. Scott.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

ebon

Blackness

VB be black, render black, blacken, infuscate, denigrate, blot, blotch, smutch, smirch, darken, black, sable, swarthy, somber, dark, inky, ebony, ebon, atramentous, jetty, coal-black, jet-black, fuliginous, pitchy, sooty, swart, dusky, dingy, murky, Ethiopic, low-toned, low in tone, of the deepest dye, black as jet, black as my hat, black as a shoe, black as a tinker's pot, black as November, black as thunder, black as midnight, nocturnal, nigrescent, gray, obscure.