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Amber color, or anything amber-colored; a clear light yellow; as, the amber of the sky.

A fish of the southern Atlantic coast (Seriola Carolinensis.)

r'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. PJC

ought from Egypt and the West Indies, and having a flavor like that of musk; musk seed. Chambers.

A species of Anthospermum, a shrub with evergreen leaves, which, when bruised, emit a fragrant odor.

See Ambergris.

A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), which is believed to be in all cases its true origin. In color it is white, ash-gray, yellow, or black, and often varieg…

A chamber or cavity filled with air, in an animal or plant.

A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. See Lobby.

See Antechamber.

A chief chamberlain; -- an officer of the old German empire, whose office was similar to that of the great chamberlain in England.

A chamber for a bed; an apartment form sleeping in. Shak. Lords of the bedchamber, eight officers of the royal household, all of noble families, who wait in turn a week each. [Eng.] -- Ladies of the bedchamber, eight ladies, all titled, holding a similar official position in the royal household, during the reign of a q…

The nuptial appartment. Matt. ix. 15.

An upward convexity of a deck or other surface; as, she has a high camber (said of a vessel having an unusual convexity of deck).

Having the keel arched upwards, but not actually hogged; -- said of a ship.

A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers.

Having a chamber or chambers; as, a chambered shell; a chambered gun.

One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Lewdness. [Obs.] Rom. xiii. 13.

An officer or servant who has charge of a chamber or chambers.