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fentenees and decrees as were thus procured from the jud¬ 
ges, contrary to reafon and equity, either gratuitoufly or 
for money. 
To AM'BLE, v. n. [ ambler, Fr. ambulo , Lat. to walk.] 
To move c a fifty, without hard fliocks. or (liaking. — Who 
ambles time withal ? A rich man that hath not the gout ; 
for he lives merrily, becaufe he feels no pain; knowing 
no burthen of heavy tedious penury: him time ambles 
withal. Skamfpcare .- — -In a ludicrous fenfe, to move with 
fubmifiion, and by direction; as, A horfe that ambles ufes ' 
a gait not natural. To walk daintily and affectedly: 
I am rudely ftampt, and want love’s majefty, 
To llrut before a wanton ambling nymph. 
Ska kef pear e. 
Amble, f. A pace or movement in which the horfe re¬ 
moves botli his legs on one fide ; as, on the far fide, he 
removes his fore and hinder leg of the fame fide at one 
time, liilft the legs on the near fide Hand ftill; and, when 
the far legs are upon the ground, the near fide removes the 
fore leg and hinder leg, and the kgs on the far fide Hand 
ftill. An amble is the firft pace of young colts, but, when 
they have ftrength to trot, they‘quit it. There is no am¬ 
ble in the manage ; riding-maftters allow only of walk, 
trot, and gallop. A horfe may be put from a trot to a 
gallop without flopping ; but he cannot be put front an 
amble to a gallop without a flop, which interrupts the 
juflnefs of the manage. 
AM'BLE R,_/i A horfe that has been taught to amble; 
a pacer. 
AM'BLINGLY, add. With an ambling'movement. 
AM'BI.ESIDE, Weftmoreland, is a fntallmarket-town, 
having a market on Wednesday, and two fairs'annually, 
viz. Whitfun-Wednefday, and 29th of October. No prin¬ 
cipal manufacture is carried on here ; the goods made be¬ 
ing chiefly for the manufacturers in Kendal, from which 
it is .diftant thirteen miles and a quarter; from Kefwick 
fncteen miles; and from London two hundred and ieventy- 
one miles. It (lands at the head of Windermere Lake; 
and is noted for a manufactory of cloth, and for a con- 
fiderable waterfall. The town is lituated on th.e deep de¬ 
cline of a hill, over which many high mountains arife to¬ 
wards the north. In Camden’s time, many ruins of the 
ancient Amboglana of the Romans were to be feen here ; 
<the extent of the fort refs, as he gives its dimenlions, was 
132 ells in length and eighty in breadth. Roman bricks, 
urns, and other earthen veffels, glafs lachrymals, coins, 
lnill-ftones, or quern-(tones, as he calls them, were fre¬ 
quently found here; the ground, in which the traces of 
inch places is now to be feen, forms an oblong fqtiare with 
obtufe angles, and lies near the river Brathay. The traces 
of its antiquity are, however, aimoft defaced ; the modern 
inhabitants have prel'erved few' of the Roman monuments 
which were formerly difeovered. Amblelide lies in the 
dire£t mad from Kendal, through Kefwick and Cocker- 
mouth, to Whitehaven ; and is difiant from Cockermouth 
twenty-eight miles, and from Whitehaven forty-one. Lat. 
54. 28.N. Ion. 3.6. W. 
AM'BLETEUSE, a fea-port in the department of the 
Straits of Calais. It is eight miles north of Boulogne. 
Lat. 50. 4.9. N. Ion. 1.41. E. 
AMBLO'TICS, f. \_ambloitica , Lat. ay-CaTwct, Gr.] 
Medicines that caule abortion. 
AM'BLYGON,y. of blunt, and yuna., Gr. a 
corner.] In geometry, denotes an obtufe-angled triangle, 
or a triangle one of whofe angles confifts of more than 
ninety degrees. 
AMBLYOG'MOS, or Amb LY-osMOs.yi from a^loAve, 
Gr. dull.] Bimnefs of fight. Hippocrates often ufes this 
word, and fays, this dimnefs of fight, and cprrufcations of 
light feeming to dart before the eyes, are among the fymp- 
toms of an approaching haemorrhage in continual fevers 
and genuine tertians. Sometimes he ufes the word am- 
blyofmos to exprefs the fame tiling. Galen explains this 
word by abortus, but he initkk.es it. 
A M B 
AMBLYO'PlA, f. [from dull, and the 
eye.] This is a debility of fight, abfolute or relative, with 
ocular inopacity. The principal fymptqm of which difi- 
eafe is an obfeurity of fight without any apparent opacity 
of the cornea, or interior part ctf the eye. ACtuarius 
fays, that there is a manifell, but not vilible, caufe of this 
dulnefs of fight, for neither the coats, nor the humours, 
of the eye, are difordered ; and that a defeCt of the ner¬ 
vous influence .is the probable caufe. See his work, De 
Meth. Med. lib. ii. cap. 7. 
The ambly.qp.ia is laid by fonie others to be fourfold: 
fee, ill, Myopia, or (hort-fightednefs. zdly, Prjbytce, or 
feeing only at a great difiance. 3dly, Nybla/opia, orffeeing 
only in the night, which Cel fus names imbecillitas oculorum* 
4thly, Amaurofis , dulnefs of fight. Dr. Cullen places this 
word in his Nofology as fynonymous with the word dyfopia, 
which is his generic term for thofe diforders in and of the 
eye, called myopia, &e. The amblyopia of fome writers, 
is the amaurofis of Dr. Cullen; for the different fpecies of 
which fee Medicine. 
AM'BO, or Ambon, f. [of %i/.Qsx.ivv, Gr. to mount.] 
A kind of pulpit or de!k, in the ancient churches, where 
the priefts and deacons flood to read or fing part of the fer- 
vice, and preach to die people ; called alfo analogium. The 
ambo was mounted upon two fides; whence lome derive 
the appellation from the Latin ambo, “ both.” Befides 
the gofipc!, which v.as read at th.e top of the ambo, and 
the epillle, which was read a flop lower, they likewife 
publiflied from this place the aftsof the martyrs, the com¬ 
memoration of departed faints, and the letters of peace 
and communion font by one church to another. Here, too, 
converts made a public profeffion of their faith ; and hi¬ 
lltops their defence, when accufed : treaties alfo were 
fometimes concluded, and the coronations of emperors and 
kings performed, in the fame place. The modern reading- 
defies and pulpits have been generally lu.bftituted to the an¬ 
cient anibos; though, in fome churches, remains of the 
a mbps are ftill feen. In that of St. John de Lateran at 
Rome, there are two moveable ambos. 
AMBOHITSME'NE, or Vohitsanghom'be, a pro¬ 
vince of the iftand of Madagafcar, fo called from fome 
red mountains of tlte fame name, lying in fouth lat. 20°. 
Thefe mountains are very high, refembling the Tafelberg 
of the Cape of Good Hope. On one fide of this ridge 
the fea extends into the country for fifteen leagues ; on the 
other is a flat country, abounding in ponds and marlhes. 
Here is alfo a lake fifteen leagues in length, and the fame 
in breadth, containing many fmall iflands. The inhabi¬ 
tants of the mountains are called Zaferahengs ; and have 
plenty of gold, iron, cattle, (ilk, See. 
AMBOI'SE (George D’), of the illuftrious houfe of 
Amboife in France, was born in 1460. Being deftined at 
a very early age for the church, lie was defied bifiiop of 
Montauban when only fourteen. He was afterwards made 
one of the almoners to Louis XI. to whom he behaved with 
great prudence. After the death of this prince in 1480, 
he entered into fome of the intrigues of the court with a 
defign to favour the duke of Orleans, with whom he was 
clofely connected ; but, thofe intrigues being difeovered, 
D’Amboife and his protestor were botli imprifoned. Th.e 
duke of Orleans was at laft refiored to his liberty ; and this 
prince, having negociated the marriage of the king with 
the princefs Anne of Brittany, acquired great reputation 
and credit a-t court. Of this his favourite D’Amboife felt 
the happy effeCts, for foon after the archbiftiopric of Nar- 
bonne was bellowed on him. The king dying in 149S, the 
duke of Orleans afeended the throne, by the name of 
Louis XII. and D’Amboife' became his prime minifter. 
By his firft operation in that office, he conciliated the af¬ 
fection of the whole nation. It had been a cuftom, when 
a new monarch afeended the throne, to lay an extraordi¬ 
nary tax on the people, tp defray the expences of the co¬ 
ronation, but, by the counfel of D’Amboife, this tax was 
not levied ; and the imports were foon reduced one-tenth. 
Sometime after D’Amboifc was received at Paris, with 
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