ambergrease

All wrecks, mines, minerals, quarries of gems, and precious stones, with pearl-fishing, whale-fishing, and one half of all ambergrease, by whomsoever found, shall wholly belong to the Lords Proprietors.

An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 Alexander Hewatt

While thus ruminating, the mate and Louis began a desultory conversation concerning what they termed "ambergrease."

The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Frank T. Bullen 1886

Something had been put into his favourite dish of eggs and ambergrease.

The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

_ But Pug's fortune does: that is dearer to me than Greece, and sweeter than ambergrease.

The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06 John Dryden 1665

Other commodities of the country are ambergrease, in small quantity, rosin, train oil, ginger, indigo, and especi - ally the most valuable balsam, called capayva, besides vast cjuantities of Brazil wood, which is so much used in dying.

A commercial view, and geographical sketch, of the Brasils in South America, and of the island of Madeira... serving as a guide to the commercial world.. 1812

To make Whetstone Cakes: — Take half a pound of fine flour, and half a pound of loaf sugar searced, a spoonful of carraway-seeds dried, the yolk of one egg, the whites of three, a little rose-water, with ambergrease dissolved in it; mix it together, and roll it out as thin as a wafer; cut them with a glass; lay them on flour’d paper, and bake them in a slow oven.

Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine 2006

"Why, sir, that's a lump of ambergrease, worth more'n a hundred pound,

The Cruise of the "Esmeralda" Harry Collingwood 1886