| 单词 | white amber |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhite amber 8. Ambergris (also grey amber); a perfume made from this. Occasionally also: spermaceti (also white amber). Obsolete.Cf. black amber n. (b) at black adj. and n. Compounds 1e(a). [The application to spermaceti arises by confusion of two substances derived from whales (compare spermaceti n.). Compare Middle French, French †ambre blanc (1562 in Du Pinet's translation of Pliny; 1611 in Cotgrave), post-classical Latin ambra alba (1594 or earlier).] ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Odontoceti > [noun] > family Physeteridae > genus Physeter (sperm whale) > parts of > ambergris amberc1390 ambergris?a1425 black amber1658 the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > [noun] > large member of (whale) > parts of > spermaceti or oil spermaceti1471 whale-shot1612 amber1663 sperm oil1839 shot1914 c1390 (?c1350) St. Ambrose l. 5 in C. Horstmann Sammlung Altengl. Legenden (1878) 8 Ambra is a spicerye, Of gret pris, smelleþ swotelye: Þerof is called þis name ambrose. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xiii. xxvi. 686 Þe whale hath grete plente of sperme..and if it is ygadred and ydried it turneþ to þe substaunce of ambra [1495 de Worde Ambra, 1535 ambre]. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 173v (MED) R[ecipe]..ambre grice i. grey ambre [L. ambre grise]..be þer made vnguent. 1568 T. Hacket tr. A. Thevet New Found Worlde xxiii. f. 38v There are great store of Whales, out of the which the inhabitaunts of the Countrey draw Amber, the which many take to be gray Amber, a thing that is here very skant and precious. 1663 G. Harvey Archelogia Philosophica Nova I. ii. i. 219 Amber is known by three sorts... 3. Is whitish Amber, otherwise called Sperma Ceti. 1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 18 Apr. (1965) I. 352 Slaves..with silver Censors..perfum'd the air with Amber, Aloes wood, and other Scents. 1783 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 73 226 Ambergrise, or properly speaking Grey Amber, is a solid, opaque, inflammable substance. < as lemmas |
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