AMBER

Definitions

1. 1. 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.
2. 2. Amber color, or anything amber-colored; a clear light yellow; as, the amber of the sky.
3. 3. Ambergris. [Obs.] You that smell of amber at my charge. Beau. & Fl.
4. 4. The balsam, liquidambar. Black amber, and old and popular name for jet.