_Uses._ It is chiefly made into mouth-pieces for pipes, beads for necklaces, and other ornaments and trinkets. It is also used as the basis of several excellent varnishes. In _medicine_, it was formerly given in chronic coughs, hysteria, &c.——_Dose_ (of the powder), 10 to 60 gr. _Remarks._ The finer sorts of amber fetch very high prices. A piece 1 _lb._ in weight is said to be worth from 10£ to 15£. 5000 dollars a few years since were offered in Prussia for a piece weighing 13 _lbs._, and which, it was stated by the Armenian merchants, would fetch from 30,000 to 40,000 dollars in Constantinople. It is more valued in the East than in England; and chiefly on account of the Turks and other Orientals believing it to be incapable of transmitting infection. In the royal cabinet, Berlin, there is a piece weighing 18 _lbs._, supposed to be the largest ever found. The coarser kinds alone are employed in medicine, chemistry, &c. =Amber, Ac′id of=* (ăs′-). Succinic acid. =Amber, Bal′sam of.= _Syn._ BAL′SAMUM SUC′CINI, L. The thick matter left in the retort after the rectification of oil of amber; and which it resembles in its properties. =Amber, Facti′′tious= (-tĭsh′-). _Syn._ SUC′CINUM FACTI′′TIUM, L. Mellite, copal, and anime, have each been substituted for amber, especially for small fragments of it. Recently an imitation has been produced by acting on gutta percha with sulphur, at a high temperature, which, either alone or in combination with copal, is said to have been extensively passed off for genuine amber. =Amber, Liq′uid=†. See LIQUID-AMBAR. =Amber, Oil of.= See OILS. =Amber, Re′sin of.= See PYRÉTINE. =Amber, Salt of.= Succinic Acid. =Amber, Sol′uble.= _Prep._ Fragments of amber are cautiously heated in an iron pot, and as soon as it becomes semi-liquid, an equal weight of pale boiled linseed-oil, previously made hot, is very gradually stirred in, and the whole thoroughly blended. Used as a cement for glass and earthenware, and thinned with oil of turpentine to make varnishes. It will keep any length of time if preserved from the air. =AMBER-CAM′PHOR.= See PYRÉTINE (Crystalline). =AM′BER DRINK=†. Amber-coloured malt liquor. =AM′BER-SEED.= Musk-seed (which _see_). =AM′BER-TREE.= The popular name of a species of anthospermum, an evergreen shrub, of which the leaves, when bruised, emit an agreeable odour.