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cuitous way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech. After many ambages, perspicuously define what this melancholy is. Burton.

Ambagious. [R.]

Circumlocutory; circuitous. [R.]

Ambagious. [R.]

table of many varieties, derived from the wild Brassica oleracea of Europe. The common cabbage has a compact head of leaves. The cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, etc., are sometimes classed as cabbages.

A portable bag for travelers; -- so called because originally made of carpet.

An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865). [U. S.]

A roundabout or indirect course; indirectness. [Obs.] S. Richardson.

t is characterized by a great variety of chances. A man's fancy would be summed up in cribbage. John Hall. Cribbage board, a board with holes and pegs, used by cribbage players to score their game.

A sailor's small bag to hold thread, needles, tape, etc.; -- also called sailor's housewife.

A sack to hold miscellaneous articles, as tools, supplies, or the like.

A bag filled with earth, used commonly to raise or repair a parapet.

The upper stomach of a cow, or other ruminant animal; the rumen.

To strip of the bowels; to clean. "Pilchards . . . are garbaged." Holland.

Herbs collectively; green food beasts; grass; pasture. "Thin herbage in the plaims." Dryden.

Covered with grass. Thomson.

The receptacle for honey in a honeybee. Shak. Grew.

Of or pertaining to lumbago.

A rheumatic pain in the loins and the small of the back.

A bag in which feed for a horse, ox, or the like, may be fastened under the nose by a string passing over the head.