Search the Dictionary

Continuing; lasting.

Permanently. Carlyle.

er; one equally ready to act on either side in party disputes. The rest are hypocrites, ambidexters, so many turning pictures -- a lion on one side, a lamb on the other. Burton.

The quality of being ambidexas, ambidexterity of argumentation. Sterne. Ignorant I was of the human frame, and of its latent powers, as regarded speed, force, and ambidexterity. De Quincey.

Pertaining equally to the right-hand side and the left-hand side. Earle.

Practicing or siding with both parties. All false, shuffling, and ambidextrous dealings. L'Estrange.

In an ambidextrous manner; cunningly.

The quality of being ambidextrous; ambidexterity.

One who bids at an auction in behalf of the auctioneer or owner, for the purpose of running up the price of articles. [U.S.]

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the genus Carbus or family Carabidæ. -- n.

A binary compound of carbon with some other element or radical, in which the carbon plays the part of a negative; -- formerly termed carburet.

A chicken; a fowl; also, a trivial term of endearment for a child.

bit; to interdict. More than I have said . . . The leisure and enforcement of the time Forbids to dwell upon. Shak.

The act of forbidding; prohibition; command or edict against a thing. [Obs.] ow hast thou yield to transgress The strict forbiddance. Milton.

Prohibited; interdicted. I kniw no spells, use no forbidden arts. Milton. Forbidden fruit. (a) Any coveted unlawful pleasure, -- so called with reference to the forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden. (b) (Bot.) A small variety of shaddock (Citrus decumana). The name is given in different places to several varieties of…

In a forbidden or unlawful manner. Shak.

One who forbids. Milton.

ing abhorrence, aversion, or dislike; disagreeable; prohibiting or interdicting; as, a forbidding aspect; a forbidding formality; a forbidding air.

Of relating to the hemerobians.

Covered with herbs. [Obs.] Bailey.