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Show AM AM ‘pleafant fmell, almoft like ambergris It flow trom an incifion made in the bark of a fine large | tree in New Spain, called by the natives ofgfol Chambers as painte th an water amber glafs . Tike, it gives the light the colour of its medium Peackam No interwoven reeds a garland made To hide his brows within the vulgar fhade an and fans Pope double charge o . With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knav'ry Skakefpeare or refemblin Bacon A'MBERGRIS. 7. /o [from amber and gris or grey 5 that 1s, grey amber. A fragrant drug, that melts almoft like wax, commonly of a greyith or ath colour, ufed both as Some imagine it to be th excrement of a bird, which " heat of the fun, and wathe being melted by th oft the fhore by th waves, is fwallowed by whales, who return it bac in the condition we find it. Others conclude it t be the excrement of a cetaceous fifh, becaufe fome- times found in the inteftines of fuch animals Bu we have no inftance of any excrement capable of melting like wax; andif it were the excrementof whale, it fhould rather be found where thefe aniOthers take i mals abound, as about Greenland or a kind of wax or gum, which diftils from trees Man and drops into the fea, where it congeals of the orientals imagine it {prings out of the fea, a Others affer naphtha does out of fome fountains it to be a vegetable produttion, ifluing out of th root of a tree, whofe roots always {hoot towards th Other fea, and difcharge themfelves into it maintain, that ambergris is made from the honey combs whic fall into th fea from the rocks where the bees had formed their pefts 5 feveral per {ons having feen pieces that were half ambergris and half plain honey-comb; and others have found large piece of ambergris in which whe broke honey-comb, and honey too, were found in th middle WNeumann abfolutely denies it to be a animal fubftance, as not yielding, in the analyfis any one animal principle.. He concludes it to be bitumen iffuing out of the earth into the fea; at firft of a vifcous confiftence, but hardening, by it mixture with fome liquid naphtha, into the form i which we find it Trewoux. Chambers Bermudas wall'd with rocks, who does not kno "That happy ifland, where huge lemons grow ‘Where fhining pearl, coral, and many a pound On the rich thore, of ambergris is found ? Waller AMBE SEED o muft feed refemble mzllet, is ofa bitterith tafte, and brough dry from Martinico and Egypt Chambers AMBER TREE. 7 [ [ frutex Africanus ambram fpirans.] A fhrub, whofe beauty i in its {mall evergreen leaves, whic gro a clof as heath and bein bruifed between the fingers, emit a ver fragrant odour. Miller AMBIDE XTER. n. /. [Lat. his hands Rodiginus, undertaking to give a reafon of ambidexters, and left-hande opinion men deliveret a thir Brown z. A wan who is equally ready to aét o In an ambiguous manner; doubtfully; AumBi'LoQuovs. adj. [from ambo and guor, Lat.] Ufing ambiguous and doybtL' Eftrange Dig ful expreflions dealings AMBIDEXTROUSNESS. 7. /. [from ambi- AviiroQuy. n /. [ambiloquium, Lat The ufe of doubtful and indeterminat dextrous.] The quality of being ambi/Efop condemns the doub: le pradtices 5of trimou xt id am an in ff fh fe fa al an mers Dict. | expreflions ; difcourfe of doubtful meapdextrous Dig ing Sur t L n i m [ ad N A'MBI {A'mBIT. 7, [ [ambitus, Lat.] The comrounding; encompafling; invefting pafs or circuit of any thing ; the lin This which yields or fill All fpace, the ambient air wide interfus'd. Milton that encompalfles any thing The thicknefs of a plate requifite to produce an The tufk of a wild boar winds about almof int colour, depends only on the denfity of the plate, and not on that of the ambient medium Nequton's Opticks Around him dance the rofy hours And damafking the ground with flow'rs a perfeét ring or hoop afoot and two inches of fomething higher than is pofleffed a prefent. ‘1. The defire of preferment or honour. And with full pow'r affert her ambient main ‘Who would think, without having fuch amin as Antiphilus, that {o great. goodnefs could no have bound gratefulnefs ? and fo high advancemen not have fatisfied his ambition Sidney Prior The ambicnt zether is too liquid and empty impel horizontally with that prodigious celerity t Bentley 2. The defire of any thing great or excel AMBIGU. n. /. [French.] An entertainment, confifting not of regular courfes but of a2 medley of dithes fet on toge ther When firaiten'd in your time, and fervants few You'd richly then compofe an ambigu Where firft and fecond courfe its bafis an inchover Grew's Mufwum AmBI'T10N. #../[..[ambitio, Lat. the defir Fenton to Lord Gozver. Illuftrious virtues, who by turns have rof With happy laws her empire to fuftain only it is a little writhen In meafuring by the ambit, itis long or round abou With ambient fweets perfume the morn lent The quick'ning power would be, and fowouldreft The fenfe would not be only, but be well But wit's ambition longeth to the beft Eor it defires in endlefs blifs to dwell Urge them, while their foul Daviess Are capable of this ambition and your defert All in one fingle table have their part King's Art of Cookery. Left zeal, now melted by the windy breath Of foft petitions, pity, and remorfe Cool and congeal again to what it was. Shakeh AmeicvurTy. #n [ [from ambiguous. Doubtfulnefs of meaning; uncertainty 3. Itis ufed with 0 before a verb, and's before a noun of fignification; double meaning With ambiguities they often entangle themfelves not marking what doth agree to the word of Go in itfelf, and what in regard of outward accidents Hocker We can clear thefe ambiguities And know their fpring, their head, their true defcent Shake[peare The words are of fingle fignification, withou any ambiguity 5 and therefore I fhall not trouble you by ftraining for an interpretation, where there i no difficulty ; or diftinétion, where there is no difference Soyth AMBI'GUOUS 1. Doubtful uncertain fignification o But what have been thy anfwers, what but dark Ambiguous, and with doubtful fenfe deluding Milton in the covenant were ambigusus and were left {o; becaufe the perfons who frame them were not all of one mind Clarendon 2. Applied to perfons ufing doubtful expreflions. It is applied to exprefions or thofe that ufe them, not to a dubiou or fufpended Rate of mind T had avery early ambition to.recommend myfel to your Lordfhip's patronage Addl;fi" There was an ambition of wit, and an affetatio Pope's Preface to bis Letters of gayety de AvBr'Ti0US. adj. [ambitiofus, Lat I.. Seized or touched with ambition firous of advancement ; eager of ho nours ; afpiring. It has the particle '7 before the objeét of ambition, 1f a nous t0, if expreffed bya verb We feem ambitious God's whole work t' undo adj. Lambiguus, Lat. having two meanings Some expreffion 1. A man who has equally the ufe of bot AmB1'GUOUSL z . adv. [from ambigy ous, e x d b a r [ j a uncertainly ; with double meaning AMBIDE'X AMmBI'GUOUSNESS. 7. /. [from ambiguoys Lat. u t t l c f u e The quality of being ambiguous ; yy t w 1. Having certainty of meaning ; duplicit of fig either hand tle an u r x d b a i e i n c tion nific Others, no c ic ef th t u i b f al to d n handed m Amzr'LocY. 7. /i [from ambo, Lat, an w o B of the liver roy@ Tal o uou ambi o y doube t b o i 2. Double-dealing; praci Dig ion fica fign s fid lour and tranfparency perfume and a cordial Pope 2. Double dealing amber in co All your clear amber-drink is flat D "‘ y" ke br u in An ga th gt le a Silenc Conftrain'd a fmile, and thus ambiguous fpoke ufe both hands A'MBER-DRINK. 7 /. Drink of the colou of amber ambi In th ref th ' ol in m te i Some truths reveal'd t l u e l a i b o '1. The qualit W'MrER, adj. Confifting of amber fcarrs brav'ry [fro #. / if Th* ambiguous god, who rul'd her la k ;m efi ex mi hi fe myfterious word dexter. Addifon Wit Thi {enfe is ludicrous But poplar wreathes around his temples fpread And tears of amper trickled down his head The fpoils of elephants the roofs inlay, And frudded amber darts a golden ray either fide, in party difputes | AMBIDEXTERITY If light penetrateth any clear body, that is co- loured AM Donne The neighb'ring monarchs, by thy beauty led Contend in crowds, ambitious of thy bed : The world is at thy choice, except but one Except but him thou canft not choofe alone Dryden ¥ou have been pleafed not to fuffer an old ma to go difcontented out of the world, for wan that protection, ¢f which he had been fo long é bitious D o d"; Trajan, a prince-ambitious of glorys defcendfl to the mouths of the Tigris and Euphrates, a went upon the ocean, where, feeing d velel tr ing to the Indi¢s, he had thoughts of outdoin Alexander 5 g .dréutbmfim |