rare exc. in pa. pple. ambered. [f. the sb. Cf. Fr. ambrer, pa. pple. ambré.]
1. To perfume with ambergris.
1616. Beaum. & Fl., Cust. Country, III. ii. Be sure The wines be lusty, high, and full of spirit, And amber’d all.
a. 1648. Digby, Closet Opened (1677), You may strew Ambred Sugar upon it.
2. To make amber-colored.
1809. J. Barlow, Columb., IV. 548. The sand-sown beach, the rocky bluff repays The faint effulgence with their amber’d rays.
3. To preserve in amber.
1882. H. Merivale, Faucit of B., II. II. ii. 155. Like the ambered fly … incessantly wondering why he was anywhere.
