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Circumlocutory; circuitous. [R.]

Ambagious. [R.]

A valuable East Indian fiber plant (Hibiscus cannabinus), or its fiber, which is used throughout India for making ropes, cordage, and a coarse canvas and sackcloth; --called also brown Indian hemp.

The mission of an ambassador. [Obs.] Carew.

A minister of the highest rank sent a foreign court to represent there his sovereign or country.

Of or pertaining to an ambassador. H. Walpole.

The state, office, or functions of an ambassador.

A female ambassador; also, the wife of an ambassador. Prescott.

Same as Embassage. [Obs. or R.] Luke xiv. 32.

See Embassy, the usual spelling. Helps.

Amber color, or anything amber-colored; a clear light yellow; as, the amber of the sky.

A fish of the southern Atlantic coast (Seriola Carolinensis.)

r's Summer Palace in Russia, which was richly decorated with walls and fixtures made from amber. The amber was removed by occupying German troops during the Second World War and has, as of 1997, never been recovered. The room is being recreated from old photographs by Russian artisans. PJC

ought from Egypt and the West Indies, and having a flavor like that of musk; musk seed. Chambers.

A species of Anthospermum, a shrub with evergreen leaves, which, when bruised, emit a fragrant odor.

See Ambergris.

A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), which is believed to be in all cases its true origin. In color it is white, ash-gray, yellow, or black, and often varieg…

Ambs-ace. [Obs.] Chaucer.

aler; 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.