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Ambulatory; fitted for walking. Verrill.

ertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory animal.

Same as Anbury.

n wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush.

Ambuscade. [Obs.] Shak.

Posted in ambush; ambuscaded. [Obs.]

peril; a device to entrap; a snare. Heaven, whose high walls fear no assault or siege Or ambush from the deep. Milton.

One lying in ambush.

An ambush. [Obs.] 2 Chron. xiii. 13.

A burn or scald. Blount.

See Am.

One of the Mohammedan nobility of Afghanistan and Scinde.

Enamel. [Obs.] Boyle.

A variety of wheat from which starch is produced; -- called also French rice.

Capable of being ameliorated.

To make better; to improve; to meliorate. In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition. Macaulay.

The act of ameliorating, or the state of being ameliorated; making or becoming better; improvement; melioration. "Amelioration of human affairs." J. S. Mill.

Tending to ameliorate; producing amelioration or improvement; as, ameliorative remedies, efforts.

One who ameliorates.

ord or act; (c) Christ as being one who is true and faithful. And let all the people say, Amen. Ps. cvi. 48. Amen, amen, I say to thee, except a man be born again, he can not see the kingdom of God. John ii. 3. Rhemish Trans. To say amen to, to approve warmly; to concur in heartily or emphatically; to ratify; as, I say…