Definition of amber

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Amber (n.) The balsam, liquidambar..

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Nasopalatine :: Nasopalatine (a.) Connected with both the nose and the palate; as, the nasopalatine or incisor, canal connecting the mouth and the nasal chamber in some animals; the nasopalatine nerve..
Refrigeratory :: Refrigeratory (n.) The chamber, or tank, in which ice is formed, in an ice machine..
Electric :: Electric (n.) A nonconductor of electricity, as amber, glass, resin, etc., employed to excite or accumulate electricity..
Rosin :: Rosin (n.) The hard, amber-colored resin left after distilling off the volatile oil of turpentine; colophony..
Chambering :: Chambering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chambe.
Oven :: Oven (n.) A place arched over with brick or stonework, and used for baking, heating, or drying; hence, any structure, whether fixed or portable, which may be heated for baking, drying, etc.; esp., now, a chamber in a stove, used for baking or roasting..
Echauguette :: Echauguette (n.) A small chamber or place of protection for a sentinel, usually in the form of a projecting turret, or the like. See Castle..
Monothalamous :: Monothalamous (a.) One-chambered.
Camber :: Camber (v. i.) To curve upward.
Bour :: Bour (n.) A chamber or a cottage.
Amber :: Amber (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..
Underchamberlain :: Underchamberlain (n.) A deputy chamberlain of the exchequer.
Phragmocone :: Phragmocone (n.) The thin chambered shell attached to the anterior end of a belemnite.
Coffer :: Coffer (n.) The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam..
Chum :: Chum (v. i.) To occupy a chamber with another; as, to chum together at college..
Myrrh :: Myrrh (n.) A gum resin, usually of a yellowish brown or amber color, of an aromatic odor, and a bitter, slightly pungent taste. It is valued for its odor and for its medicinal properties. It exudes from the bark of a shrub of Abyssinia and Arabia, the Balsamodendron Myrrha. The myrrh of the Bible is supposed to have been partly the gum above named, and partly the exudation of species of Cistus, or rockrose..
Foraminifera :: Foraminifera (n. pl.) An extensive order of rhizopods which generally have a chambered calcareous shell formed by several united zooids. Many of them have perforated walls, whence the name. Some species are covered with sand. See Rhizophoda..
Fourneau :: Fourneau (n.) The chamber of a mine in which the powder is placed.
Hypocaust :: Hypocaust (n.) A furnace, esp. one connected with a series of small chambers and flues of tiles or other masonry through which the heat of a fire was distributed to rooms above. This contrivance, first used in bath, was afterwards adopted in private houses..
Chamberlain :: Chamberlain (n.) An upper servant of an inn.
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