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commonly happens in about eight days, ftrewing fome 
powder of verdigreafe upon the part, to prevent the return 
of the complaint. If the tumour be fo low that nothing 
can be tied about it, they cut it out with a knife, or elfe 
burn it off with a fliarp hot iron ; and, in finewy parts, 
where a hot iron is improper, they eat it away with oil of 
vitriol, or white fublimate. 
AM'BUSCADE, f. [ embifcade Fr.] A private ftation 
in which men lie to furprife others ; ambufli :■ 
Then waving high her torch, the fignal made, 
Which rous’d the Grecians from their ambufcade. Dryden. 
•—When I behold a fafhionable table fet out, I fancy that 
gouts, fevers, and lethargies, with innumerable diftem- 
pers, lie in ambufcade among the difhes. Addifon. 
AMBUSCA'DO,y. [ embofcada , Span.] A private poft, 
in order to furprife an enemy : 
Sometimes (lie driveth o’er a foldier’s neck, 
And then he dreams of cutting foreign throats, 
Ot breaches, ambujcadocs , Spanith blades, 
Of healths five fathom deep. Shakfpeare. 
AM’BUSH,y [ ambujckc , Fr. from bcis, a wood; whence 
tmbufcher, to hide in woods, ambufhes being commonly 
laid under the concealments of thick forefts.] The poll 
where foldiers or affallins are placed, in order to fall 
unexpectedly upon an enemy. The aft of furprifing an¬ 
other, by lying in wait or lodging in a fecret poll: 
——Nor (hall we need, 
With dangerous expedition, to invade 
Heav’n, whofe high walls fear no affault or fiege. 
Or ambujh from the deep. Milton. 
The ftateof being ported privately, in order to furprife ; 
the rtate of lying in wait. Perhaps the perfons placed in 
private rtations : 
For you, my noble lord of Lancarter, 
Once did I lie in ambufi for your life. Shakefpeare. 
AM'BUSHED, adj. [from ambujh.'] Placed in ambufli; 
lying in wait: 
Thick as the (hades, there iffue fwarming bands 
Of ambit/k'd men, whom, by their arms and drefs-, 
To be Taxallan enemies I guefs. Dryden. 
AM'BUSHMENT,/! [from ambujh .] Ambufh ; fur¬ 
prife : a word now not ufed. 
Like as a wily fox, that having fpied 
Where on a funny bank the lambs do play,- 
Full clofely creeping by the hinder fide, 
Lies in ambujhmcnt of his hoped prey. Spenfer. 
AMBU'ST, adj. [ambujlus, Lat.] Burnt; fealded. 
AMBUS'TA,y in medicine, burns or fealds, called 
alfo caufe, ambujlio, ambujlura. Dr. Cullen places this cafe 
as a variety of the phlogofis erythema. Burns and fealds 
differ not as to any conlideration refpefting the cure. A 
burn is from folid fubfiances, but confidered as to the 
effeft on the injured body : a feald is a burn from any hot 
fluid, or folid when in a fluid ffatc. Their danger is ac¬ 
cording to the degree, the part injured, the peculiarity of 
the conffitution, and confequent fymptoms ; and wounds 
from burns are more liable to form a cicatrix than when 
they are produced by other caufes. Burns may be ranked 
into four kinds, i. When a rednefsin the part is attended 
with heat and pain. 2. When after the burn there arife 
puftules or blifters, with pain. 3. When the fkin and 
fubjacent fat are burnt to a cruft. 4. When the burning 
goes to the bone. The two firft referable an inflammation, 
and are to be confidered as fuch, from an external caufe ; 
the third a gangrene, and the fourth a fphacelus. In ge¬ 
neral, burns and fealds of any confequence require bleed¬ 
ing, and repeated gentle purging, to prevent or to reduce 
inflammation. If lightning was the caufe, the internal 
ufe of cordials is required ; and if the pain is great, though 
a fever attends, anodynes internally will be neceffary. 
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AMBUS'TION,y. [ ambujlio , Lat.] A burn or feald. 
AM'BY, a town of the Netherlands, in the province of 
Limburg, fituated oppofite to Maeftricht, on the eaft fide 
ot the river Maefe, in lat. 56. 52. N. Ion. 5. 41. E. 
AME'DIANS, in church-hiftory, a congregation of re¬ 
ligious in Italy, fo called from their profeffing themfelves 
amantes Deum, “lovers of God;” or rather amati Deo, 
“ beloved of God.” They wore a grey habit and wooden 
fhoes, had no breeches, and girt themfelves with a cord. 
They had twenty-eight convents ; and were united by 
Pope Pius V. partly with the Ciftercian order, and partly 
with that of the Soccolanti, or wooden-fhoe wearers. 
AMEDNAGUR', a city of Hindoftan, in the Decan, 
once the capital of the foubah of the fame name, which is 
now better known by that of Dowlatabad. This place 
was the refidence of the Emperor Aurengzebe, during 
his conquefl: of the Decan and the Carnatic. It is 181 
miles by Poonah from Bombay. Lat.22.58.N. Ion.72.37.E. 
A'MEL, f. [email, Fr.] The matter with which the 
variegated works are overiaid, which we call enamelled .— 
The materials of glafs melted with calcined tin, compofe 
an undiaphanous body. This-white amel is the bafis of all 
thofe fine concretes that goldfmiths and artificers employ 
in the curious art of enamelling. Boyle. 
AMELANCHIERTy in botany. See Chionanthus 
and Mespilus. 
AM'ELAND, an iftand of the United Provinces, in the 
German ocean, near the coaft of Friezland, from which 
it is feparated by a (freight called the Wadt. 
A'MELCORN,y. [not unlikely of amylum, ftarch, Lat. 
q. d. amyle corn.] French rice, a kind of grain of which 
ftarch is made. 
AME'LIA, formerly Ameria, or Emilia, a fmall 
city in the pope’s territories, feated on a mountain, be¬ 
tween the Tiber and Nira, in a fertile country, twenty 
miles fouth-weft of Spoleto, and forty-five north of Rome. 
Lat. 42.33. N. Ion. 12. 30. E. 
AMEL'LOIDES, f. in botany. See Cineraria. 
AMEL'LUS,y [from mel honey.] In botany, a genus 
of the fyngenefia polygamia fuperflua clafs, ranking in the 
natural order of compofitae oppofitifoliae. The generic 
characters are—Calyx : common imbricate, roundifh. 
Corolla : compound radiate ; corollets hermaphrodite, 
very many in the ditk. Females very many in the ray. 
Proper of the hermaphrodite tubulous, five-cleft. Fe¬ 
male ligulate, lax, two or three toothed. Stamina: in 
the hermaphrodites, filaments five, capillary, thort. An¬ 
thers cylindrical, tubulous. Piftillum : in the herma¬ 
phrodites germ obovate. Style filiform, the length of the 
ftamens. Stigmas two, filiform. Females very like the 
hermaphrodites. Pericarpium : none. Calyx unchanged. 
Seeds : to the hermaphrodites folitary obovate ; down ca¬ 
pillary, to the females, very like the others. Receptacu- 
lum : chaffy.— EJJentialCharaEler. Calyx, imbricate. Co¬ 
rollets of the ray undivided. Down fimple. Recepta- 
culum, chaffy. 
Species. 1. Amelins lychnitis, or trailing amellus: 
leaves oppofite, lanceolate, obtufe, downy, peduncles one- 
flowered. Rifes from two to three feet high, fending out 
branches on every fide, terminated by flower-ftalks, each 
fupporting one violet-coloured flower, with a yellow difit, 
and appearing in July or Auguft. It grows naturally at 
the Cape of Good Hope. 
2. Amellus umbellatus, or umbelled amellus: leaves 
oppofite, three-nerved, downy underneath, flowers um¬ 
belled. This has herbaceous, upright, fimple, round, 
hairy, fiems, two feet high, or at moft two feet and a halt. 
It is a native of Jamaica, in the cooler woods and moun¬ 
tains, and flowers there in fummer. 
Propagation and Culture. The firft is a perennial plant, 
eatily propagated by cuttings, planted in the ftiade during 
any of the fummer months, and duly watered. Thefe 
ftiould be taken up with balls of earth to their roots, and 
planted in pots, that they may be fheltered in winter, either 
under a common frame, or in a green-houfe, where they 
may 
