Word Finder - amber

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Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.

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A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent fossil resin, used for jewellery. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight.

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A yellow-orange colour.

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The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, which when illuminated indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.

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The stop codon (nucleotide triplet) "UAG", or a mutant which has this stop codon at a premature place in its DNA sequence.

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an amber codon, an amber mutation, an amber suppressor

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To perfume or flavour with ambergris.

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ambered wine, an ambered room

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To preserve in amber.

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an ambered fly

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To cause to take on the yellow colour of amber.

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To take on the yellow colour of amber.

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Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.

The liquid was a light amber color and had bubbles in it.

The deep amber eyes mocked her.

The amber eyes flashed with little flecks of red.

The sea-worn amber has lost its crust, but has often acquired a dull rough surface by rolling in sand.

His amber eyes widened and darkened.

He sobered, his amber gaze expressing concern.

He lifted his tea glass and examined the amber liquid.

From the corner of her eye she saw them approach, but the amber gaze held hers in its intoxicating grip.

His eyes flared amber then faded to tanzanite as he gazed down at her.

Damian definitely had the body and weird, glowing amber eyes.

The aromatic and irritating fumes emitted by burning amber are mainly due to this acid.

A spark of the old humor ignited in the amber eyes and she canted her head toward her father.

His gaze turned from amber to fire, and she wondered if she'd pushed him too far.

The scent of oak and amber and his calming presence eased some of her tension while filling her lower belly with fire.

Divers have been employed to collect amber from the deeper waters.

They entered a dark dining hall, where a pot of tea and two tea cups sat waiting for them next to a carafe of amber alcohol at the table nearest the entrance.

He glanced up and met her startled gaze with eyes the color of fine amber - not brown, not yellow, but an indistinct mixture of both.

His arm slipped around her waist, drawing her close, and she stared up into those unusual amber eyes.

He smiled warmly when he met her gaze, a twinkle of amusement deepening the amber color to brown.

The amber gaze searched her face expectantly.

His amber eyes had a way of darkening with emotion, but why were they so dark now?

He swung around and stared at her, his amber gaze growing cool.

His eyes flared amber.

An icy amber gaze fell on her, chilling her heart to stillness.

Her eyes were almond shaped and clear amber.

Even the scent of the room was a dark mix of oak and amber.

The Hebrew lhashmal seems to have been amber.

Dana, and now commonly used in scientific writings as a specific term for the real Prussian amber.

Enclosures of pyrites may give a bluish colour to amber.

The so-called "black amber" is only a kind of jet.

Pieces of amber torn from the sea-floor are cast up by the waves, and collected at ebb-tide.

The variety most valued in the East is the pale straw-coloured, slightly cloudy amber.

Cloudy amber maybe clarified in an oil-bath, as the oil fills the numerous pores to which the turbidity is due.

The pieces are carefully heated with exclusion of air and then compressed into a uniform mass by intense hydraulic pressure; the softened amber being forced through holes in a metal plate.

Coming to the Tertiary we find the Oligocene beds of Aix, of east Prussia (amber) and of Colorado, and the Miocene of Bavaria, especially rich in remains of beetles, most of which can be referred to existing genera.

Another valuable article of commerce which the Phoenicians brought into the market was amber.

Amber has often been imitated by other resins like copal and kauri, as well as by celluloid and even glass.

Amber is also found in many localities in Emilia, especially near the sulphur-mines of Cesena.

It has been conjectured that the ancient Etruscan ornaments in amber were wrought in the Italian material, but it seems that amber from the Baltic reached the Etruscans at Hatria.

It has even been supposed that amber passed from Sicily to northern Europe in early times - a supposition said to receive some support from the fact that much of the amber dug up in Denmark is red; but it must not be forgotten that reddish amber is found also on the Baltic, though not being fashionable it is used rather for varnish-making than for ornaments.

The amber of Sicily seems not to have been recognized in ancient times, for it is not mentioned by local authorities like Diodorus Siculus.

Burmite is the name under which the Burmese amber is now described.

The Burmese amber is yellow or reddish, some being of ruby tint, and like the Sicilian amber it is fluorescent.

Most of the Burmese amber is worked at Mandalay into rosary-beads and ear-cylinders.

Many other fossil resins more or less allied to amber have been described.

Amber and certain similar substances are found to a limited extent at several localities in the United States, as in the greensand of New Jersey, but they have little or no economic value.

A fluorescent amber is said, however, to occur in some abundance in Southern Mexico.

During this or a second voyage Pytheas entered the Baltic, discovered the coasts where amber is obtained and returned to the Mediterranean.

Germany, and containing brown coal and amber, has been met with only in Poland, Courland and Lithuania.

In amber, as proved by the deposits on the shores of the Baltic, the proverbial "fly" is more numerous than any other creatures, and with very few exceptions representatives of all the existing families have been found.