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An instrument for measuring distances; -- called also perambulator. Knight.

Ambulatory; fitted for walking. Verrill.

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

Going about from place to place; wandering; of or pertaining to a deambulatory. [Obs.] "Deambulatory actors." Bp. Morton.

Narrow, like the walk of a ropedancer. This funambulatory track. Sir T. Browne.

One who perambulates.

Preceding; going before; introductory. [R.] Simon Magus had preambulatory impieties. Jer. Taylor.

A somnambulist.

A covered passage or ambulatory on one side of a court; (pl.) the series of such passages on the different sides of any court, esp. that of a monastery or a college. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale. Milton.

A perambulator which records distances and delineates a profile, as of a road.

portico in front of ancient churches; sometimes, the atrium or outer court surrounded by ambulatories; -- used, generally, for any vestibule, lobby, or outer porch, leading to the nave of a church.

t is operated by being pushed across country, and not only records distances, like the perambulator, but also elevations.

A noun suffix denoting that which pertains to, or serves for; as in ambulatory, that which serves for walking; consistory, factory, etc.

A colonnade or covered ambulatory, especially in classical styles of architecture; usually, a colonnade at the entrance of a building.

See Perambulatory. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

tly peripteral, as a temple having the columns at the sides attached to the walls, and an ambulatory only at the ends or only at one end. -- n.

Any ambulatorial orthopterous insect, as a stick insect.

measuring the distance which one has traveled on the road; an odometer, pedometer, or perambulator. The waywiser to a coach, exactly measuring the miles, and showing them by an index. Evelyn.

eive wooden cogs; the skeleton of a mortise gear. -- Measuring wheel, an odometer, or perambulator. -- Wheel and axle (Mech.), one of the elementary machines or mechanical powers, consisting of a wheel fixed to an axle, and used for raising great weights, by applying the power to the circumference of the wheel, and a…