Amber
- a. Resembling amber, especially in color; amber-colored.
- n. 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.
- n. Amber color, or anything amber-colored; a clear light yellow; as, the amber of the sky.
- n. Ambergris.
- n. The balsam, liquidambar.
- a. Consisting of amber; made of amber.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.