English

Noun

grisamber ‎(uncountable)

1. (obsolete) ambergris

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)

With dishes pil’d, and meats of noblest sort And savor, Beasts of chase, or Fowl of game, In pastry built, or from the spit, or boil’d Grisamber stream’d; all Fish from the Sea or Shore… Alas how simple, to these Cates compar’d Was the crude Apple that diverted Eve! (Paradise Regained, II.440-49)