Noah Webster
Alburn
AL'BURN,
ALBURN'UM, noun [Latin alburnum, from albus, white.]
The white and softer part of wood, between the inner bark and wood. In America, it is popularly called the sap. This is annually acquiring hardness, and becoming wood.
AL'BURN, adjective [Latin alburnus, from albus, white.]
A fish called the bleak. It belongs to the order of abdominals, and the genus Cyprinus. It is five or six inches in length, and esteemed delicious food. Artificial pearls are made of its scales.