AMBER
\ˈambə], \ˈambə], \ˈa_m_b_ə]\
Definitions of AMBER
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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A yellowish translucent resin resembling copal, found as a fossil in alluvial soils, with beds of lignite, or on the seashore in many places. It takes a fine polish, and is used for pipe mouthpieces, beads, etc., and as a basis for a fine varnish. By friction, it becomes strongly electric.
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Amber color, or anything amber-colored; a clear light yellow; as, the amber of the sky.
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The balsam, liquidambar.
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Consisting of amber; made of amber.
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Resembling amber, especially in color; amber-colored.
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To preserve in amber; as, an ambered fly.
By Oddity Software
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A yellowish translucent resin resembling copal, found as a fossil in alluvial soils, with beds of lignite, or on the seashore in many places. It takes a fine polish, and is used for pipe mouthpieces, beads, etc., and as a basis for a fine varnish. By friction, it becomes strongly electric.
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The balsam, liquidambar.
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Consisting of amber; made of amber.
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Resembling amber, especially in color; amber-colored.
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To preserve in amber; as, an ambered fly.
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color, or anything amber-colored; a clear light yellow; as, the amber of the sky.
By Noah Webster.
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A yellowish fossil resin, the gum of several species of coniferous trees, found in the alluvial deposits of northeastern Germany. It is used in molecular biology in the analysis of organic matter fossilized in amber.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Pertaining to or like amber.
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A yellowish fossilized vegetable resin, hard, brittle, and translucent.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Syn.: succinum. A yellowish fossil resin, the gum of several species of coniferous trees, found in the alluvial deposits of N.E. Prussia. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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A yellow transparent substance of a gummous or bituminous consistence.
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Consisting of amber.
By Thomas Sheridan
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