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The state, office, or functions of an ambassador.

Ambuscade. [Obs.] Shak.

Posted in ambush; ambuscaded. [Obs.]

A dry kind of cherry, of a light color. Simmonds.

Armada. [Obs.]

One who works a mine with means provided by another. [Sp. Amer. & Southwestern U. S.]

e of tropical America. It is about the size and shape of a large pear; -- called also avocado pear, alligator pear, midshipman's butter.

A West Indian island, giving its name to a disease, to a cherry, etc. Barbados cherry (Bot.), a genus of trees of the West Indies (Malpighia) with an agreeably acid fruit resembling a cherry. -- Barbados leg (Med.), a species of elephantiasis incident to hot climates. -- Barbados nuts, the seeds of the Jatropha curca…

See Barricade. Shak.

A blow with a stick or cudgel.

An herbaceous European plant (Atropa belladonna) with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also deadly nigh…

Same as Bridoon.

A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer. Dryden.

Boastful and threatening behavior; a boastful menace. In spite of our host's bravado. Irving.

Chamber; house; -- used in Ca"ma*ra dos Pa"res, and Ca"ma*ra dos De`pu*ta"dos. See Legislature.

An attack by surprise by soldiers wearing the camisado. Give them a camisado in night season. Holinshed.

Flesh, fowl, etc., cut across, seasoned, and broiled on coals; a chop. [Obs.]

A black variety of diamond, found in Brazil, and used for diamond drills. It occurs in irregular or rounded fragments, rarely distinctly crystallized, with a texture varying from compact to porous.

r frying or broiling; to cut or slice and broil. [Obs.] A short-legged hen daintily carbonadoed. Bean. & Fl.

meadow irrigated by water from a spring or rivulet on the side of hill.