3. An instrument for measuring distances; — called also perambulator. Knight.
Ambulatorial
(Am`bu*la*to"ri*al) a. Ambulatory; fitted for walking. Verrill.
Ambulatory
(Am"bu*la*to*ry) a. [L. ambulatorius.]
1. Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory
animal.
2. Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable; as, an ambulatory court, which
exercises its jurisdiction in different places.
The priesthood . . . before was very ambulatory, and dispersed into all families.
Jer. Taylor.
3. Pertaining to a walk. [R.]
The princess of whom his majesty had an ambulatory view in his travels.
Sir H. Wotton.
4. (Law) Not yet fixed legally, or settled past alteration; alterable; as, the dispositions of a will are ambulatory
until the death of the testator.
Ambulatory
(Am"bu*la*to*ry), n.; pl. Ambulatories [Cf. LL. ambulatorium.] (Arch.) A place to walk
in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building.
Amburry
(Am"bur*ry) n. Same as Anbury.
Ambuscade
(Am`bus*cade") n. [F. embuscade, fr. It. imboscata, or Sp. emboscada, fr. emboscar
to ambush, fr. LL. imboscare. See Ambush, v. t.]
1. A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in
wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush.
2. A place in which troops lie hid, to attack an enemy unexpectedly. [R.] Dryden.
3. (Mil.) The body of troops lying in ambush.
Ambuscade
(Am`bus*cade"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ambuscaded ; p. pr. & vb. n. Ambuscading ]
1. To post or conceal in ambush; to ambush.
2. To lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or lurking place; to waylay.
Ambuscade
(Am`bus*cade"), v. i. To lie in ambush.
Ambuscado
(Am`bus*ca"do) n. Ambuscade. [Obs.] Shak.
Ambuscadoed
(Am`bus*ca"doed) p. p. Posted in ambush; ambuscaded. [Obs.]
Ambush
(Am"bush) n. [F. embûche, fr. the verb. See Ambush, v. t.]
1. A disposition or arrangement of troops for attacking an enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station.
Hence: Unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare.
Heaven, whose high walls fear no assault or siege
Or ambush from the deep.
Milton.
