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amber grice

amber grice is the alternative spelling of ambergris.

Meaning of ambergris

Noun

ambergris (usually uncountable, plural ambergrises)

  1. (usually) A solid, waxy, flammable substance of a dull gray to blackish color, formed within the intestines of the sperm whale and used in the production of perfumes.
    • Your onely way to make a good pomander, is this. Take an ownce of the pureſt garden mould, clenſed and ſteeped ſeauen daies in change of motherleſſe roſe water, then take the beſt Labdanum, Benioine, both Storaxes, amber greece, and Ciuet, and muſke, incorporate them together, and work them into...1607, [attributed to Thomas Tomkis], Lingva: Or The Combat of the Tongue, and the Five Senses for Superiority. A Pleasant Comœdie., London: Printed by G[eorge] Eld, for Simon Waterson, →OCLC, act IV...
    Synonyms:
    amber, grey amber

Questions about amber grice

What is amber grice the alternative spelling of?
Amber grice is the alternative spelling of ambergris.

Words near amber grice in the dictionary

  1. amber greace
  2. amber grease
  3. amber grece
  4. amber greece
  5. amber grese
  6. amber grice
  7. amber griece
  8. amber griese
  9. amber gris
  10. amber grise
  11. amber light

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