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Something that surrounds or invests; as, air . . . being a perpetual ambient. Sir H. Wotton.

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

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

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.

rse; to go easily or without hard shocks. The skipping king, he ambled up and down. Shak. Sir, your wit ambles well; it goes easily. Shak.

The act of walking. Sir T. Browne.

g to a walk. [R.] The princess of whom his majesty had an ambulatory view in his travels. Sir H. Wotton.

De Quincey. We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman. Sir W. Scott. To amend a bill, to make some change in the details or provisions of a bill or measure while on its passage, professedly for its improvement.

Lovable; lovely; pleasing. [Obs. or R.] So amiable a prospect. Sir T. Herbert.

Deprivation; loss. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To lose. [Obs.] A lodestone fired doth presently amit its proper virtue. Sir T. Browne.

A wanton woman; a courtesan. Sir T. Herbert.

a tribe of Amphibia, which have both lungs and gills at the same time, as the proteus and siren.

marily, without any amplification at all, show in what manner defects have been supplied. Sir J. Davies.

Having analogy; analogous. Sir M. Hale.

An expression equivalent to What did you say Sir Eh [Obs.] Shak.

Once. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

to be of angelic goodness or loveliness; a darling. When pain and anguish wring the brow. Sir W. Scott.

to gain by some insinuating artifice; to allure. [Obs.] "He angled the people's hearts." Sir P. Sidney.

One who, or that which, animates; an animater. Sir T. Browne.