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A fatty substance, which in a purified state has the form of a soft white scaly mass, found in the head (and to some extent in other parts) of the…
Ambergris (also grey amber); a perfume made from this. Occasionally also: spermaceti (also white amber). Obsolete.
an oil found together with spermaceti in the head of various species of whales.
= whale-shot n. (spermaceti). (In recent dictionaries.)