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ambergris
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context uncountable English) A solid, waxy, flammable substance of a dull grey or blackish color, produced in the intestines of the sperm whale. It is used in perfumes.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Middle French ambre gris "gray amber" (see amber ), "a wax-like substance of ashy colour, found floating in tropical seas, a morbid secretion from the intestines of the sperm-whale. Used in perfumery, and formerly in cookery" [OED]. Its ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ambergris \Am"ber*gris\ ([a^]m"b[~e]r*gr[=e]s), n. [F. ambre gris, i. e., gray amber; F. gris gray, which is of German origin: cf. OS. gr[^i]s, G. greis, gray-haired. See Amber .] A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Ambergris " is the 18th episode of the fourth season of the American animated comedy series Bob's Burgers . Written by Scott Jacobson, the episode sees the Belcher children— Tina ( Dan Mintz ), Gene ( Eugene Mirman ), and Louise ( Kristen Schaal )—discovering ...
Usage examples of ambergris.
So it was that Asquith purged his body of all nanotechnology, reversed some minor gene engineering, and arrived on Ambergris just in time for some of the excitement he thought he was seeking.
From other ships he looted cargoes of lapis, pearls, amber, diamonds, rubies, carnelian, ambergris, jade, ivory, and lignum vitae.
The dark opening to the treasure chamber exhaled the faint perfume of ambergris, frankincense, and sandalwood.
Ambergris, resisting the unprovoked invasion of Ambergris, and assisting in the evacuation of Ambergris, were acts of valor and military prowess unprecedented in the long histories of our peoples.
I have more than half persuaded myself that it is an enormous piece of ambergris, washed up by the sea.
If it is ambergris, we are made men: we have but to go to the nearest dealer and change it for its weight in gold, ha, ha, ha!
When the whale is ill, the ambergris is formed--I suppose you could say it is no more complicated than the process by which phlegm is formed in your throat when you have a cold, and the whale coughs it up, or spews it out in the form of a liquid which hardens on exposure to the air.
You see, ambergris is the most effective odor fixative that has ever been found.
He was indefatigable when it came to crushing bitter almond seeds in the screw press or mashing musk pods or mincing dollops of grey, greasy ambergris with a chopping knife or grating violet roots and digesting the shavings in the finest alcohol.
When I had finished, I loaded it with some chests of rubies, emeralds, ambergris, rock-crystal, and bales of rich stuffs.
Mohammedan travelers speak of ambergris swallowed by whales, who are made sick and regorge it.
So inventing by the light of inner consciousness alone, he worked up tiny doses of the grey ambergris into mutton fat, coloured it faintly pink with cochineal insects he caught on the prickly pear hedges, added a little crude borax as a preservative, and so produced a cosmetic that was no better and little worse than the thousand other nostrums of its kind in daily use elsewhere.
The smell of dust and time was overcome by that of cinnamon and ambergris as they descended.
She took ambergris from her pack and crumbled it, rubbed the waxy green granules into the soles of her feet, her wrists.
The arm on which she had rubbed the ambergris was sliding free, for the fabric did not adhere to it.