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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.

Absence of ambiguity; clearness; perspicuity.

Doubtful or ambiguous language. [Obs.] Bailey.

Of or pertaining to amphiboly; ambiguous; equivocal.

Of doubtful meaning; ambiguous. "Amphibological expressions." Jer. Taylor. -- Am*phib`o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

Ambiguous; doubtful. [Obs.] Never was there such an amphibolous quarrel -- both parties declaring themselves for the king. Howell.

Ambiguous discourse; amphibology. If it oracle contrary to our interest or humor, we will create an amphiboly, a double meaning where there is none. Whitlock.

Ambiguity of speech; equivocation. [R.]

Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly.

To free from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of perplexity; to make perspicuous. Many knotty points there are Which all discuss, but few can clear. Prior.

hings quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which the answer is or involves a pun. Or pun ambiguous, or conundrum quaint. J. Philips.

Free from ambiguity; unequivocal; unmistakable; unquestionable; clear; evident; as, a decided advantage. "A more decided taste for science." Prescott.

Ambiguous; mysterious. "If he is silent or delphic." New York Times.

Ambiguous; of double meaning. [Obs.] T. Adams.

An ambiguous speech; a figure in which a word is used an equivocal sense. [R.]

Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous. He howhere, that I know, says it in direct words. Locke. A direct and avowed interference with elections. Hallam.