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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.

Encompassing on all sides; circumfused; investing. "Ambient air." Milton. "Ambient clouds." Pope.

Of two kinds. (Bot.)

An entertainment at which a medley of dishes is set on at the same time.

The quality or state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty, particularly as to the signification of language, arising from its admitting of more than one meaning; an equivocal word or expression. No shadow of ambiguity can rest upon the course to be pursued. I. Taylor. The words are of single signification, w…

; capable of being understood in either of two or more possible senses; equivocal; as, an ambiguous course; an ambiguous expression. What have been thy answers What but dark, Ambiguous, and with double sense deluding Milton.

In an ambiguous manner; with doubtful meaning.

Ambiguity.

Left-handed on both sides; clumsy; -- opposed to ambidexter. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Doubtful or ambiguous language. [Obs.] Bailey.

Characterized by containing the rudiments of both flowers and leaves; -- applied to a bud.

Circuit or compass. His great parts did not live within a small ambit. Milward.

olicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing. [Obs.] [I] used no ambition to commend my deeds. Milton.

One excessively ambitious. [R.]

Devoid of ambition. Pollok.

Possessing, or controlled by, ambition; greatly or inordinately desirous of power, honor, office, superiority, or distinction. Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honorable man. Shak.

In an ambitious manner.