2. Literally, a brim; but in surgery, an instrument for reducing dislocated shoulders, so called from the jutting of its extremity. Also the mango tree.
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Ambi-
Webster's Dictionary 1913
A prefix meaning about, around; -- used in words derived from the Latin.
1. A person who uses both hands with equal facility.
2. A double dealer; one equally ready to act on either side in party disputes. [This sense is used in ludicrous language.]
Using both hands with equal ease.
1. A person who uses both hands with equal facility.
2. A double-dealer; one equally ready to act on either side in party disputes.
1. AMBIDEXTER'ITY ,
2. AMBIDEX'TROUS, adjective Having the faculty of using both hands with equal ease; practicing on siding with both parties.
1. The quality of being ambidextrous; the faculty of using both hands with equal facility.
3. Double-dealing.
Pertaining equally to the right-hand side and the left-hand side.
1. Having the faculty of using both hands with equal ease.
2. Practicing or siding with both parties.
In an ambidextrous manner; cunningly.
The faculty of using both hands with equal facility; double dealing; the taking of money from both parties for a verdict.
The quality of being ambidextrous; ambidexterity.
Surrounding; encompassing on all sides; investing; applied to fluids or diffusible substances; as, the ambient air.
Encompassing on all sides; circumfused; investing.
Something that surrounds or invests; as, air . . . being a perpetual ambient.
1. Of two kinds.
2. Partaking of two natures, as the perianth of some endogenous plants, where the outer surface is calycine, and the inner petaloid.
An entertainment or feast, consisting of a medley of dishes.
An entertainment at which a medley of dishes is set on at the same time.
of Ambiguity
1. Doubtfulness or uncertainty of signification, from a word's being susceptible of different meanings; double meaning.
2. Words should be used which admit of no ambiguity
1. Having two or more meanings; doubtful; being of uncertain signification; susceptible of different interpretations; hence, obscure. It is applied to words and expressions; not to a dubious state of mind, though it may be to a person using words of doubtful signification.
2. The ancient oracles were ambiguous as were their answers.
Doubtful or uncertain, particularly in respect to signification; capable of being understood in either of two or more possible senses; equivocal; as, an ambiguous course; an ambiguous expression.
In an ambiguous manner; with doubtful meaning.
In an ambiguous manner; with doubtful meaning.
Left handed on both sides. [Not in use.]
Left-handed on both sides; clumsy; -- opposed to ambidexter.
Talk or language of doubtful meaning.
Using ambiguous expressions.
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