Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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

   3. Ambergris. [Obs.]

            You that smell of amber at my charge. --Beau. & Fl.

   4. The balsam, liquidambar.

   {Black amber}, and old and popular name for jet.