AMBITION
AMBI'TION, noun [Latin ambitio, from ambio, to go about, or to seek by making interest, of amb, about, and eo, to go. See Ambages. This word had its origin in the practice of Ro...
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AMBITIOUS
AMBI'TIOUS, adjective1. Desirous of power, honor, office, superiority or excellence; aspiring; eager for fame; followed by of before a noun; as ambitious of glory.2. Showy; adap...
AMBITIOUSLY
AMBI'TIOUSLY, adverb In an ambitious manner; with an eager desire after preferment, or superiority.
AMBITIOUSNESS
AMBI'TIOUSNESS, noun The quality of being ambitious; ambition. Being nearly synonymous with ambition, it is not often used.
AMBLE
AM'BLE, verb intransitive [Latin ambulo, to walk.]1. To move with a certain peculiar pace, as a horse, first lifting his two legs on one side, and then changing to the other2. T...
AMBLER
AM'BLER, noun A horse which ambles; a pacer.
AMBLIGON
AM'BLIGON, or AM'BLYGON, noun [Gr. obtuse, and an angle.]
AMBLIGONAL
AMBLIG'ONAL, adjective Containing an obtuse angle.
AMBLIGONITE
AM'BLIGONITE, noun [Gr. having an obtuse angle.]A greenish colored mineral, of different pale shades, marked on the surface with reddish and yellowish brown spots. It occurs mas...
AMBLING
AM'BLING, participle present tense or adjective Lifting the two legs on the same side at first going off, and then changing.
AMBLINGLY
AM'BLINGLY, adverb With an ambling gait.
AMBLYGON
AM'BLIGON, or AM'BLYGON, noun [Gr. obtuse, and an angle.]An obtuse angled triangle; a triangle with one angle of more than ninety degrees.
AMBLYOPY
AM'BLYOPY, noun [Gr. dull, and eye.]Incipient amaurosis; dulness or obscurity of sight, without any apparent defect of the organs; sight so depraved that objects can be seen onl...
AMBO
AM'BO, noun [Gr. a pulpit; Latin umbo, a boss.]A reading desk, or pulpit.
AMBREADA
AMBREA'DA, noun [from amber.] A kind of factitious amber, which the Europeans sell to the Africans.
AMBROSIA
AMBRO'SIA, noun ambro'zha, [Gr. a neg. and mortal, because it was supposed to confer immortality on them that fed on it.]1. In heathen antiquity, the imaginary food of the gods....
AMBROSIAL
AMBRO'SIAL, adjective ambro'zhal. Partaking of the nature or qualities of ambrosia; fragrant; delighting the taste or smell; as, ambrosial dews. Ben Jonson uses ambrosiac in a l...
AMBROSIAN
AMBRO'SIAN, adjective Pertaining to St Ambrose. The ambrosian office, or ritual, is a formula of worship in the church of Milan, instituted by St. Ambrose, in the fourth century.
AMBROSIN
AM'BROSIN, noun In the middle ages, a coin struck by the dukes of Milan, on which St. Ambrose was represented on horseback, with a whip in his right hand.
AMBRY
AM'BRY, noun1. An almonry; a place where alms are deposited for distribution to the poor. In ancient abbeys and priories there was an office of this name, in which the almoner l...
AMBSACE
AMBS'ACE, noun [Latin ambo, both, and ace.]A double ace, as when two dice turn up the ace.
AMBULANT
AM'BULANT, adjective [Latin ambulans, from ambulo.]Walking; moving from place to place.Ambulant brokers, in Amsterdam, are exchange-brokers, or agents, who are not sworn, and wh...
AMBULATION
AMBULA'TION, noun [Latin ambulatio.] a walking about; the act of walking.
AMBULATOR
AM'BULATOR, noun In entomology, a species of Lamia, whose thorax is armed on each side with two spines; a Cerambyx of Linne.
AMBULATORY
AM'BULATORY, adjective1. That has the power of faculty of walking; as, an animal is ambulatory2. Pertaining to a walk; as, an ambulatory view.3. Moving from place to place; not ...
AMBURY
AM'BURY, OR AN'BURY, noun [Latin umbo, the navel; Gr.]Among farriers, a tumor, wart or swelling on a horse, full of blood and soft to the touch.
AMBUSCADE
AM'BUSCADE, noun [Eng. bush.]1. Literally, a lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise: hence, a lying in wait, and concealed in any situatio...