EMBASSADOR

In Politics, the order of foreign ministers. An amil of the country which sends its personally the dignity powers of Europe send amba aLh the exception of Pru ia, which never employs ministers of this cla . The word a mba sri vat i on, but is suppo hi word a mba sci are, to solicit. In of later date than the ninth century, -"ambas-are frc-; and it may hence be presumed nally given to envoys who attended our for another party. As to nba adora in England: if an I which is a crime against the. iii> isi ipunlaha-Iminally no only malaprotu; ments of the laws of the ex-. Vniic, c. 12, an amba ador or public minmts, buna fi per c a burned, Distilled per se, U ■ r holding succinic and acetic acids, and empyreumatic oil in solution (tl limed succinic acid (salt of amber), and an oil (oil of amber). The acid, when purl i from 3 to 5 per cent. The residual charr 13 per cent., and when strongly • little volatile matter resembling c iling amber, called fc times occurs with it; it Is le soluble in alcohol, and yields id. uown ma of amber was found near the round in Lithuania, about twelve miles from i ighteen pounds, and is in the royal. i al Merlin. e of amber is as an article of ornament, cut ids or necklaces, and in the manufacture of varATVIBERGRIS. (From ambre, and gris, grey amber.) has been found in the intestines 01 ibably a product of disease: perhaps ne. Ii has also been found upon the coasts cal countries, in ma es of valriou I appearance, and interspersed throughoul I'll the beaks of the sepia octopo: Mimon food of the whale. When genuine, ambergris has a peculiar odour, not easily described or Imitated, and which Is exceedingly diffusive, especially in soluiion, unate quantity of ambergris is perceptible id is thought to exalt their odour. A grain i down with suaar, and added to a * i very perceptible in the wine and ir, by some considered as an improvement. The best ambergris is softish and somewhat waxy when ty varies from 780 to 896: it ruses al higher temperature gives out a white smoke, which condenses into a crystalline fatly matter, component (about 80 percent.) is a peculiar fatty matter (ambreine), which may be obtained by boiling it In: as the solution rools, it deposits crystals, which may be purified by pre ure in folds of blotting paper. Amuses at100°; its odour is agreeable, and it rises in vapour [s. 53]