Definition of "ambeer" []

• Chiefly Southern U.S. Saliva colored by tobacco chewed or held in the mouth; tobacco juice. (noun)

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• "There was a gravity in his look, but that was not from any gravity of spirits; it was his swarth complexion that gave him this appearance, aided, no doubt, by several lines of "ambeer" proceeding from the corners of his mouth in the direction of the chin."
• "It is neither fair nor dark, but of a dull-brown colour, lighter around the mouth, where it has been bleached by the sun, "ambeer," and water."