Amazon 
originating, the statement that the right breast 'amara. build, cultivate.] In India, a covered 
was removed in order that it might not interfere howdah. Yule and Burnett. 
with the use of the bow and Javelin.] 1. In ambarvalia (am-bar-va li-a), n. pi. [L., neut, 
Gr leqend, one of a race of women who dwelt pi. of ambarvalw, that goes around the fields, 
on the coast of the Black Sea and in the Can- < ambi-, around, + arvum, a cultivated field.] 
casus mountains. They formed a state from which In Sou,, antiq.,* festival of which the object 
amber 
Well, my ambassadress, what must we treat of? 
Come you to menace War, and proud Defiance? 
Itoii-r, Fair Penitent, i. 
Also written cmbassadress. 
ambassadryt, [Also embassadry, ME. am- 
bassttdric, etc. : see ambassador and -n/.] Same 
as embassy. 
there- in tile milr inornm" i< f iit : over me lop 01 mi CUAUUCVAJ \ i. - -r: -; - ,. wuci 
Paris' which 'swims itii one's failing eyes: -a horrible end! An East Indian plant, Hibiscus cannabinus. bugi] 
Nay, the rope broke, as French ropes often did; or else g ee JJi&isCHS. _g 
an amaznn cut it. Carlyle, French Eev., I. vii. 5. 3^3^ (am'bash), n. [Appar. native name.] j^b'; 
amazon' 2 (am'a-zon), . 
business of an ambassador. 2. An embassy. 
An ambassador. N. E. D. 
genus of b'irds:' so called from the great river 
Amazon, Pg^/Ho das Amazonas, 
iuiiuiisii v*"" "=",;> (."Fr 1 "' "-* "---j Ambassidae (am-bas'i-de), . pf. L- 1 "^-) N a - m ~ 
[< NL. Amazona, a The pith-tree of the Nile, Herminiera Elaphro- 6assis + _ i(la! -j A family of percoid fishes: sy- 
the great river X yi on , a leguminous tree with very light wood. nonyTnO us with Bogodidai. 
, Sp. Bio de las ambassadet (am-ba-sad'), n. [Also embassadc ; Anrtiassis (am-bas'is), n. [NL., 
erroneously 
riors said to have been seen 
ambaaaator, ambaxadour, etc., m&mMdojW, em y nenee O n'a bone.-2. Insr<,., an'old and 
uuattim-iuii, v" " -/. ?'?:> ^ e form8 be . mg Vel ? nUm ffi US llv a S g now obsolete mechanical contrivance for re- 
rufescens, a species" of ant which robs the nests initially am-, em-, -, en-, in-, and nnally -ador, du - dislocations of the shoulder, said to have 
of other species, carrying off the neuters when -^^'^'^^^^^^^ been invented by Hippocrates. 
as, the royal amazoti, Sellatrix regina. 
Amazon-ant (am'a-zon-ant), n. The Formica 
in the larva or pupa stage to its own nests, 
where they are brought up along with its own 
larvse bjr neuters stolen before. 
Amazonian 1 '" " ~"'" ; "^ " 
zon : in the following extract, beardless. 
Our then dictator, 
Whom with all praise I point at, saw him fight, 
When with his Amazonian chin he drove 
The bristled lips before him. Shak., Cor., 11. 2. 
2. Bold; of masculine manners; warlike; quar- 
relsome : applied to women. 
How ill-beseeming is it in thy sex 
To triumph, like an Amazonian trull, 
Upon their woes whom fortune captivates ! 
Shot., 3 Hen. VI., L 4. 
Amazonian' 2 (am-a-zo'ni-an), a. [= Pg. Sp. 
Amazoniano or Amazonio; <. Amazon, the river; 
in form like Amazonian*.] Belonging to the 
river Amazon, in South America, or to the 
country lying on that river. -Amazonian stone, 
or Amazon Stone, a beautiful green feldspar found in 
rolled masses near the Amazon river; also found in Si- 
beria and Colorado. It belongs to the species microclin 
(which see). 
amb-. See ambi-. 
ambage (am'baj), n.; pi. ambages (am'ba-jez, 
or, as Latin, am-ba'jez). [< ME. ambages, < OF. 
ambages, ambagis, < L. ambages (usually plur.), 
a going around, circumlocution, ambiguity, < 
ambi-, around (see ambi-), + agere, drive, move: 
see agent. Cf. ambiguous. In mod. use the 
pi. is often treated as mere L.] A winding or 
roundabout way; hence (a) Circumlocution; 
equivocation ; obscurity or ambiguity of speech. 
With ambayes, 
That is to seyn, with dowble wordes slye. 
Chaucer, Troilus, v. 896. 
, 
ambassadeur alsoambaxadeur, wAembassadeur MSQ 
mod. F. ambassadeur), < OSp. ambaxador mod. , 
Sp. embajador = Pg. embaixador =It. ambaseia- ^f?Jf \ 
ti n. [Not used in ME. except 
in ML. form ambra ; < AS. amber, ambcer, ambm; 
', amber, 
bucket, 
r ; ? ,_, _ '. a dry 
measure of four bushels (= OS. embar, ember, 
rank, employed to represent officially one prince 
or state at the court or to the government of 
another. Diplomatic agents are divided into three gen- 
eral classes : (1) ambassadors, legates, and nuncios ; (2) en- 
voys and ministers plenipotentiary (including ministers 
resident); (3) charges d'affaires. Ambassadors represent 
the 1 person of their sovereigns, as well as the state from 
which they come, and are entitled to ask an audience at 
any time with the chief of the state to which they are ac- 
credited ; to rank next to the blood royal ; to exemption 
from local jurisdiction for themselves and their house- 
holds ; to exemption from imposts and duties, immunity 
of person, free exercise of religious worship, etc. The 
United States sends and receives no ambassadors in this 
sense of the term, but only ministers of the second rank, 
who are often popularly called ambassadors. The nuncios 
of the pope who are not cardinals, and the lenati a latere 
and de latere, cardinals in rank, represent the papal see 
in its ecclesiastical capacity mainly, and bear the rank of 
ambassadors. Envoys, ministers, and ministers plenipo- 
, one, 
tentiary are held to represent, not the person of the sov- wi ^ ,. 
rre'fccredited^tt ^ ?totfthkh the} amber' (am'ber), . and a. 
are sent. This is the ordinary class of diplomatic repre- 
sentatives between less important states, or between 
= D.< 
+ -ber, < beran, E. bear 1 ; cf. 
ar, MHG. zvber, zober, Q. zu- 
ber, a tub (with two handles), < OHG. zwi- (= AS. 
twi-), two, + -bar = AS. -ber. But as the AS. 
and other forms are glossed by the various Latin 
names amphora, lagena, tircens, cadus, batus, 
situla, hydria, etc., the sense ' one-handled' does 
not seem to be original, and the spelling may 
have been corrupted to suit the popular etymol- 
ogy, the real source being then L. amphora, a 
(wo-handled vessel: see amphora. The OHG. 
ein-bar, so developed as 'one-handled,' would 
naturally be followed by zwi-bar, 'two-han- 
dled.'] 1. A vessel with one handle ; a pail; a 
bucket; a pitcher. 2. An old English measure 
of 4 bushels. 
imber 2 (am'ber), n. and a. [< ME. amber, aum- 
ber, ambyr, aumbt/r, awmyr, ambre, aumbre, < 
OF. ambre, F. ambre = Pr. ambra = Sp. Pg. 
They gave those complex ideas names, that they might of high rank; an agent or a representative of 
the more easily record and discourse of things they were 
daily conversant in, without long ambages and circumlo- 
cution. Locke. 
Lay by these ambages; what seeks the Moor? 
Lust's Dominion, iii. 4. 
(6) Circuitous or devious ways ; secret acts. 
The other cost me so many strains, and traps, and am- 
bages to introduce. Swift, Tale of a Tub. 
ambaginOUS (am-baj'i-nus), a. [< L. ambago 
(-agin-), with same sense and origin as ambages : 
see ambage.'] Same as ambagious. 
ambagious (am-ba'jus), a. [< L. ambagiosus, < principle that has alw 
ambages: seea*6nfleand-OMS.] 1. Circumlocu- ambassadorial (a 
tory ; tedious. 2. Winding ; devious. [Bare. ] oassador ; = b . am 
greater and smallerstates. fillisters resident accredited am j >afl Pg. also ambre, = It. ambra = D. amber 
= Sw. Dan. ambra = 0. amber, ambra = Russ. 
ambra ML. ambra, also ambre, ambrum, am- 
, ber, ambar, < Ar.'anbar, ambergris the orig. 
however, both ambassadors and ministers have to deal al- gense the name being extended in Europe to 
most exclusively in their official relations. See minister. , > , ,.;!,. r p?i n nm h fr 01 T It 
Hence 2. In general, any diplomatic agent 
ments, and are provided with credentials to the minister 
of foreign affairs, with which officer at the present day, 
another on any mission. 3. A thing sent as 
expressive of the sentiments of the sender. 
We have receiv'd your letters, full of love ; 
Your favours, the embassadors of love. 
Shak., L. L. L., v. 2. 
[The spelling embassador is less common, though embassy, 
and not ambassy, is now always written. ] Ambassadors' 
Act, an English statute of 1708 (7 Anne, c. 12, ss. 3-6), sug- 
gested by an attempted arrest of the Russian ambassador. 
It declares that any process against foreign ambassadors 
or ministers, or their goods and chattels, shall be alto- 
gether void. The act is, however, only declaratory of a 
principle that has always existed in international law. 
^am-bas-a-do'ri-al), a. [< am- 
ambassadorial.] Of or belong- 
to an ambassador. Also written embassa- 
dorial. 
1 of amber at my charge. Beau, and Ft. 
2. A mineralized pale-yellow, sometimes red- 
dish or brownish, resin of extinct pine-trees, 
occurring in beds of lignite and in alluvial soils, 
but found in greatest abundance on the shores 
of the Baltic, between Konigsberg and Memel, 
where it is thrown up by the sea. It is a hard, 
translucent, brittle substance, having a specific gravity of 
1.07. It is without taste or smell, except when heated ; it 
then emits a fragrant odor. Its most remarkable quality 
is its capability of becoming negatively electric by fric- 
tion; indeed, the word electricity is derived from the 
Greek for amber, ^Aenrpor. It sometimes contains remains 
of extinct species of insects. It yields by distillation an 
empyreumatic oil consisting of a mixture of hydrocarbons 
and succinic acid. It is now used chiefly for the mouth- 
pieces of pipes and for beads, and in the arts for amber 
varnish. In mineralogy it is called succinite. Artificial 
Winding 
ambagitory (am-baj'i-to-ri)i a. [Irreg. < am- 
bage + -it-ory.~] Circumlocutory; roundabout; 
fliTntojjjfiMOUS fR&TG "I * 
Partaking of what scholars call the periphrastic and am- Partment, called the amtomdonai ofilce. firo rftom Q j n the Eng l ish versions of the Old Testa- 
bayitory Scott, Waverley, xxiv. ambassadorship (am- bas a-dor-snip), re. |_<- ment (Ezek. i. 4, 27 : vm. 2) used to translate 
amban(am'ban),. [Manchu; lit., governor.] ambassador + -ship.-] The office of ambassi LOP. the Hebrew word cto/mm?, a shining metal, 
The title of the representatives of China in Mon- , His occupation of the ambassadorship has widened and rendere d in the Septuagint eleMron, and m the 
golia and Turkistan. BostmDa'Sy^Srtiser April 9 1885. Vulgate electrum. See electrum. 4. Liqui< 
YanVshah^held a^risoTo^ SS'j&ES men^as ambassadress (am-bas'a-dres) '[< ambassa- S^S^j^KSb^v^btoSS^ 
thp ^residence of 'the amhni or Boveraor aor + ^^ ' wlth obs l ete parallel forms ambas- beri in color ,. c Vembling a lemon.- Oil of amber, a vola- 
Encyc Brit XIV. 8. sadrice, ambassatrice, after F. ambassadrice, and tile oil distilled from amber. When pure it is a colorless 
ambaree, . See ambari. ambassadrix, ambassatrix, after ML. ambassia- limpid ^"I^J^'^Jjf ^e^Va sttaSant 
ambari (am'ba-ri), . [Also written ambarie, trix, NL. ambassatrix, fern, of ambassiator.-] 1. ^S^^^^Stt^^^^^^m 
ambaree, repr. Hind, ambari, also amari = Pers. The wife of an ambassador. 2. A female am- European species of St. John's wort, Hypencum Androsa- 
'amdri, < Ar. 'amari; cf. 'amara, an edifice, < bassador. mum. Walte amber, spermaceti. 
