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Meaning of अंबर in English

  • 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.
  • Amber color, or anything amber-colored; a clear light yellow; as, the amber of the sky.
  • Ambergris.
  • The balsam, liquidambar.
  • Consisting of amber; made of amber.
  • Resembling amber, especially in color; amber-colored.
  • To scent or flavor with ambergris; as, ambered wine.
  • To preserve in amber; as, an ambered fly.
  • A heaping together.
  • A lighted coal, smoldering amid ashes; -- used chiefly in the plural, to signify mingled coals and ashes; the smoldering remains of a fire.
  • Making a circuit of the year of the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year; as, ember fasts.
  • A brown or reddish pigment used in both oil and water colors, obtained from certain natural clays variously colored by the oxides of iron and manganese. It is commonly heated or burned before being used, and is then called burnt umber; when not heated, it is called raw umber. See Burnt umber, below.
  • An umbrere.
  • See Grayling, 1.
  • An African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the storks and herons. It is dull dusky brown, and has a large occipital crest. Called also umbrette, umbre, and umber bird.
  • Of or pertaining to umber; resembling umber; olive-brown; dark brown; dark; dusky.
  • To color with umber; to shade or darken; as, to umber over one's face.

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