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A room formerly in the Czar's Summer Palace in Russia, which was richly decorated with walls and fixtures made from amber. The amber was removed by occupying German troops during the Second World War and has, as of 1997, never been recovered. The room is being recreated from old photographs by Russian artisans.
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v. t.
To scent or flavor with ambergris; as, ambered wine.
v. t.
To preserve in amber; as, an ambered fly.
p. p. & p. a.
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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.
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Pertaining to, or derived from, amber; specif., designating a dibasic acid, C/H/.(CO/H)/, first obtained by the dry distillation of amber. It is found in a number of plants, as in lettuce and wormwood, and is also produced artificially as a white crystalline substance having a slightly acid taste.
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See Ambergris.
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Amber.
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Consisting of amber; made of amber.
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A Spanish light-colored dry wine, made in Andalusia. As prepared for commerce it is colored a straw color or a deep amber by mixing with it cheap wine boiled down.
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Ambergris.
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The hard, amber-colored resin left after distilling off the volatile oil of turpentine; colophony.
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A kind of cement made of mastic, amber, etc., used as a mordant for gold leaf.
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Somewhat yellow; as, amber is of a yellowish color.
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A variety of lignite, of a very compact texture and velvet black color, susceptible of a good polish, and often wrought into mourning jewelry, toys, buttons, etc. Formerly called also black amber.
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A name given to several varieties of Old World grapes, differing in color, size, etc., but all having a somewhat musky flavor. The muscat of Alexandria is a large oval grape of a pale amber color.
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Amber color, or anything amber-colored; a clear light yellow; as, the amber of the sky.
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Resembling amber, especially in color; amber-colored.
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A name given to several kinds of plums; as, red primordian, amber primordian, etc.
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A garnet of an amber color.
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