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Ambi-
(gcide) | Amb- \Amb-\, Ambi- \Am*bi-\ [L. prefix ambi-, amb-, akin to Gr.
?, Skr. abhi, AS. embe, emb, OHG. umbi, umpi, G. um, and also
L. ambo both. Cf. Amphi-, Both, By.]
A prefix meaning about, around; -- used in words derived from
the Latin.
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ambience
(mass) | ambience
- atmosféra |
ambition
(mass) | ambition
- úsilie, ctižiadostivosť, ambícia |
gambia
(mass) | Gambia
- Gambia |
mozambique
(mass) | Mozambique
- Mozambik |
unambiguous
(mass) | unambiguous
- nedvojzmyselný, jednoznačný |
zambia
(mass) | Zambia
- Zambia |
Ambidexter
(gcide) | Ambidexter \Am"bi*dex"ter\, a. [LL., fr. L. ambo both + dexter
right, dextra (sc. manus) the right hand.]
Using both hands with equal ease. --Smollett.
[1913 Webster]Ambidexter \Am`bi*dex"ter\, n.
1. A person who uses both hands with equal facility.
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2. Hence: A double-dealer; one equally ready to act on either
side in party disputes.
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The rest are hypocrites, ambidexters, so many
turning pictures -- a lion on one side, a lamb on
the other. --Burton.
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3. (Law) A juror who takes money from both parties for giving
his verdict. --Cowell.
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Ambidexterity
(gcide) | Ambidexterity \Am"bi*dex*ter"i*ty\, n.
1. The quality of being ambidextrous; the faculty of using
both hands with equal facility. Hence: Versatility;
general readiness; as, ambidexterity of argumentation.
--Sterne.
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Ignorant I was of the human frame, and of its latent
powers, as regarded speed, force, and ambidexterity.
--De Quincey.
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2. Double-dealing. (Law) A juror's taking of money from the
both parties for a verdict.
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Ambidextral
(gcide) | Ambidextral \Am`bi*dex"tral\, a.
Pertaining equally to the right-hand side and the left-hand
side. --Earle.
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Ambidextrous
(gcide) | Ambidextrous \Am`bi*dex"trous\, a.
1. Having the faculty of using both hands with equal ease.
--Sir T. Browne.
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2. Practicing or siding with both parties.
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All false, shuffling, and ambidextrous dealings.
--L'Estrange.
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Ambidextrously
(gcide) | Ambidextrously \Am"bi*dex"trous*ly\, adv.
In an ambidextrous manner; cunningly.
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Ambidextrousness
(gcide) | Ambidextrousness \Am`bi*dex"trous*ness\, n.
The quality of being ambidextrous; ambidexterity.
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Ambient
(gcide) | Ambient \Am"bi*ent\, a. [L. ambiens, p. pr. of ambire to go
around; amb- + ire to go.]
Encompassing on all sides; circumfused; investing. "Ambient
air." --Milton. "Ambient clouds." --Pope.
[1913 Webster]Ambient \Am"bi*ent\, n.
Something that surrounds or invests; as, air . . . being a
perpetual ambient. --Sir H. Wotton.
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Ambigenous
(gcide) | Ambigenous \Am*big"e*nous\, a. [L. ambo both + genus kind.]
Of two kinds. (Bot.) Partaking of two natures, as the
perianth of some endogenous plants, where the outer surface
is calycine, and the inner petaloid.
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Ambigu
(gcide) | Ambigu \Am"bi*gu\, n. [F., fr. ambigu doubtful, L. ambiquus. See
Ambiguous.]
An entertainment at which a medley of dishes is set on at the
same time.
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Ambiguities
(gcide) | Ambiguity \Am`bi*gu"i*ty\, n.; pl. Ambiguities. [L.
ambiguitas, fr. ambiguus: cf. F. ambiguit['e].]
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.
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No shadow of ambiguity can rest upon the course to be
pursued. --I. Taylor.
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The words are of single signification, without any
ambiguity. --South.
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Ambiguity
(gcide) | Ambiguity \Am`bi*gu"i*ty\, n.; pl. Ambiguities. [L.
ambiguitas, fr. ambiguus: cf. F. ambiguit['e].]
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.
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No shadow of ambiguity can rest upon the course to be
pursued. --I. Taylor.
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The words are of single signification, without any
ambiguity. --South.
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Ambiguous
(gcide) | Ambiguous \Am*big"u*ous\, a. [L. ambiguus, fr. ambigere to
wander about, waver; amb- + agere to drive.]
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.
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What have been thy answers? What but dark,
Ambiguous, and with double sense deluding? --Milton.
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Syn: Doubtful; dubious; uncertain; unsettled; indistinct;
indeterminate; indefinite. See Equivocal.
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Ambiguously
(gcide) | Ambiguously \Am*big"u*ous*ly\, adv.
In an ambiguous manner; with doubtful meaning.
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Ambiguousness
(gcide) | Ambiguousness \Am*big"u*ous*ness\, n.
Ambiguity.
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Ambilevous
(gcide) | Ambilevous \Am`bi*le"vous\, a. [L. ambo both + laevus left.]
Left-handed on both sides; clumsy; -- opposed to
ambidexter. [R.] --Sir T. Browne.
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Ambiloquy
(gcide) | Ambiloquy \Am*bil"o*quy\, n.
Doubtful or ambiguous language. [Obs.] --Bailey.
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Ambiparous
(gcide) | Ambiparous \Am*bip"a*rous\, a. [L. ambo both + parere to bring
forth.] (Bot.)
Characterized by containing the rudiments of both flowers and
leaves; -- applied to a bud.
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Ambit
(gcide) | Ambit \Am"bit\, n. [L. ambitus circuit, fr. ambire to go around.
See Ambient.]
Circuit or compass.
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His great parts did not live within a small ambit.
--Milward.
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Ambition
(gcide) | Ambition \Am*bi"tion\, n. [F. ambition, L. ambitio a going
around, especially of candidates for office is Rome, to
solicit votes (hence, desire for office or honor), fr. ambire
to go around. See Ambient, Issue.]
1. The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or
any other object of desire; canvassing. [Obs.]
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[I] used no ambition to commend my deeds. --Milton.
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2. An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for
preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment
of something.
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Cromwell, I charge thee, fling a way ambition:
By that sin fell the angels. --Shak.
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The pitiful ambition of possessing five or six
thousand more acres. --Burke.
[1913 Webster]Ambition \Am*bi"tion\, v. t. [Cf. F. ambitionner.]
To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet. [R.]
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Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece,
bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage.
--Trumbull.
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Ambitionist
(gcide) | Ambitionist \Am*bi"tion*ist\, n.
One excessively ambitious. [R.]
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Ambitionless
(gcide) | Ambitionless \Am*bi"tion*less\, a.
Devoid of ambition. --Pollok.
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Ambitious
(gcide) | Ambitious \Am*bi"tious\, a. [L. ambitiosus: cf. F. ambitieux.
See Ambition.]
1. Possessing, or controlled by, ambition; greatly or
inordinately desirous of power, honor, office,
superiority, or distinction.
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Yet Brutus says he was ambitious,
And Brutus is an honorable man. --Shak.
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2. Strongly desirous; -- followed by of or the infinitive;
as, ambitious to be or to do something.
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I was not ambitious of seeing this ceremony.
--Evelyn.
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Studious of song, and yet ambitious not to sing in
vain. --Cowper.
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3. Springing from, characterized by, or indicating, ambition;
showy; aspiring; as, an ambitious style.
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A giant statue . . .
Pushed by a wild and artless race,
From off wide, ambitious base. --Collins.
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Ambitiously
(gcide) | Ambitiously \Am*bi"tious*ly\, adv.
In an ambitious manner.
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Ambitiousness
(gcide) | Ambitiousness \Am*bi"tious*ness\ ([a^]m*b[i^]sh"[u^]s*n[e^]s),
n.
The quality of being ambitious; ambition; pretentiousness.
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Ambitus
(gcide) | Ambitus \Am"bi*tus\ ([a^]m"b[i^]*t[u^]s), n. [L. See Ambit,
Ambition.]
1. The exterior edge or border of a thing, as the border of a
leaf, or the outline of a bivalve shell.
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2. (Rom. Antiq.) A canvassing for votes.
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ambivalence
(gcide) | ambivalence \ambivalence\, ambivalency \ambivalency\n.
1. mixed feelings or emotions; uncertainty or vacillation in
making a choice.
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2. (Psychol.) the simultaneous existence within a person of
both positive and negative feelings toward another person
or action, or toward an object (as of attraction and
revulsion), resulting in internal conflict.
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ambivalency
(gcide) | ambivalence \ambivalence\, ambivalency \ambivalency\n.
1. mixed feelings or emotions; uncertainty or vacillation in
making a choice.
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2. (Psychol.) the simultaneous existence within a person of
both positive and negative feelings toward another person
or action, or toward an object (as of attraction and
revulsion), resulting in internal conflict.
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ambivalent
(gcide) | ambivalent \ambivalent\ adj.
1. 1 undecided as to whether or not to take a proposed course
of action; having feelings both for and against the
proposed action.
Syn: on the fence(predicate), suspensive, uncertain
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ambiversion
(gcide) | ambiversion \ambiversion\ n.
1. a balanced disposition intermediate between extroversion
and introversion.
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ambiversive
(gcide) | ambiversive \ambiversive\ adj.
1. (Psychol.) intermediate between introversive and
extroversive. Contrasted to introversive and
extroversive.
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Bambino
(gcide) | Bambino \Bam*bi"no\ (b[aum]m*b[=e]"n[-o]), n.; It. pl. -ni.
[It., a little boy, fr. bambo silly; cf. Gr. bambali`zein,
bambai`nein, to chatter.]
1. A child or baby; esp., a representation in art of the
infant Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. (Sports) George Herman Ruth ("Babe" Ruth), the baseball
player; -- usu. in the form "the bambino".
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Beambird
(gcide) | Beambird \Beam"bird`\, n. (Zool.)
A small European flycatcher (Muscicapa grisola), so called
because it often nests on a beam in a building.
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Cambial
(gcide) | Cambial \Cam"bi*al\, a. [LL. cambialis, fr. cambiars. See
Change.]
Belonging to exchanges in commerce; of exchange. [R.]
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Cambist
(gcide) | Cambist \Cam"bist\, n. [F. cambiste, It. cambista, fr. L.
cambire to exchange. See Change.]
A banker; a money changer or broker; one who deals in bills
of exchange, or who is skilled in the science of exchange.
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Cambistry
(gcide) | Cambistry \Cam"bist*ry\, n.
The science of exchange, weight, measures, etc.
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Cambium
(gcide) | Cambium \Cam"bi*um\, n. [LL. cambium exchange, fr. L. cambire to
exchange. It was supposed that cambium was sap changing into
wood.]
1. (Bot.) A series of formative cells lying outside of the
wood proper and inside of the inner bark. The growth of
new wood takes place in the cambium, which is very soft.
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2. (Med.) A fancied nutritive juice, formerly supposed to
originate in the blood, to repair losses of the system,
and to promote its increase. --Dunglison.
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Choliambic
(gcide) | Choliamb \Cho"li*amb\, Choliambic \Cho`li*am"bic\, n. [L.
choliambus, Gr. ?; ? lame + ? an iambus.] (Pros.)
A verse having an iambus in the fifth place, and a spondee in
the sixth or last.
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Choriambi
(gcide) | Choriambus \Cho`ri*am"bus\, n.; pl. L. Choriambi, E.
Choriambuses. [L. choriambus, Gr. ?; ? a choreus + ?
iambus.] (Anc. Pros.)
A foot consisting of four syllables, of which the first and
last are long, and the other short (- [crescent] [crescent]
-); that is, a choreus, or trochee, and an iambus united.
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Choriambic
(gcide) | Choriambic \Cho`ri*am"bic\, a. [L. choriambicus, gr. ?.]
Pertaining to a choriamb. -- n. A choriamb.
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Circumambiency
(gcide) | Circumambiency \Cir`cum*am"bi*en*cy\, n.
The act of surrounding or encompassing. --Sir T. Browne.
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Circumambient
(gcide) | Circumambient \Cir`cum*am"bi*ent\, a. [Pref. circum- + ambient.]
Surrounding; inclosing or being on all sides; encompassing.
"The circumambient heaven." --J. Armstrong.
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Dithyrambic
(gcide) | Dithyrambic \Dith`y*ram"bic\, a. [L. dithyrambicus, Gr. ?: cf.
F. dithyrambique.]
Pertaining to, or resembling, a dithyramb; wild and
boisterous. "Dithyrambic sallies." --Longfellow. -- n. A
dithyrambic poem; a dithyramb.
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Escambio
(gcide) | Escambio \Es*cam"bi*o\, n. [LL. escambium, excambium. See
Excamb.] (Eng. Law)
A license formerly required for the making over a bill of
exchange to another over sea. --Cowell.
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Excambie
(gcide) | Excamb \Ex*camb"\, Excambie \Ex*cam"bie\, v. t. [LL. excambiare,
excambire; L. ex out + cambire. See Change, and cf.
Exchange.] (Scots Law)
To exchange; -- used with reference to transfers of land.
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Excambion
(gcide) | Excambion \Ex*cam"bi*on\, Excambium \Ex*cam"bi*um\, n. [LL.
excambium. See Excamb.] (Scots Law)
Exchange; barter; -- used commonly of lands.
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Excambium
(gcide) | Excambion \Ex*cam"bi*on\, Excambium \Ex*cam"bi*um\, n. [LL.
excambium. See Excamb.] (Scots Law)
Exchange; barter; -- used commonly of lands.
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Galliambic
(gcide) | Galliambic \Gal`li*am"bic\, a. [L. galliambus a song used by the
priests of Cybele; Gallus (a name applied to these priests) +
iambus] (Pros.)
Consisting of two iambic dimeters catalectic, the last of
which lacks the final syllable; -- said of a kind of verse.
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Gambier
(gcide) | Gambier \Gam"bier\, n. [Malayan.]
(a) The inspissated juice of a plant (Uncaria Gambir)
growing in Malacca. It is a powerful astringent, and,
under the name of Terra Japonica, is used for chewing
with the Areca nut, and is exported for tanning and
dyeing.
(b) Catechu. [Written also gambeer and gambir.]
[1913 Webster]Catechu \Cat"e*chu\, n. [See Cashoo.] (Chem.)
A dry, brown, astringent extract, obtained by decoction and
evaporation from the Acacia catechu, and several other
plants growing in India. It contains a large portion of
tannin or tannic acid, and is used in medicine and in the
arts. It is also known by the names terra japonica,
cutch, gambier, etc. --Ure. --Dunglison.
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gambier
(gcide) | Gambier \Gam"bier\, n. [Malayan.]
(a) The inspissated juice of a plant (Uncaria Gambir)
growing in Malacca. It is a powerful astringent, and,
under the name of Terra Japonica, is used for chewing
with the Areca nut, and is exported for tanning and
dyeing.
(b) Catechu. [Written also gambeer and gambir.]
[1913 Webster]Catechu \Cat"e*chu\, n. [See Cashoo.] (Chem.)
A dry, brown, astringent extract, obtained by decoction and
evaporation from the Acacia catechu, and several other
plants growing in India. It contains a large portion of
tannin or tannic acid, and is used in medicine and in the
arts. It is also known by the names terra japonica,
cutch, gambier, etc. --Ure. --Dunglison.
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gambir
(gcide) | Gambier \Gam"bier\, n. [Malayan.]
(a) The inspissated juice of a plant (Uncaria Gambir)
growing in Malacca. It is a powerful astringent, and,
under the name of Terra Japonica, is used for chewing
with the Areca nut, and is exported for tanning and
dyeing.
(b) Catechu. [Written also gambeer and gambir.]
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Gambison
(gcide) | Gambison \Gam"bi*son\, n. [OF. gambeson, gambaison, fr. gambais,
wambais, of German origin: cf. MHG. wambeis, G. wams doublet,
fr. OHG. wamba, stomach. See Womb.]
A defensive garment formerly in use for the body, made of
cloth stuffed and quilted.
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Gambist
(gcide) | Gambist \Gam"bist\, n. [It. gamba leg.] (Mus.)
A performer upon the viola di gamba. See under Viola.
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Gambit
(gcide) | Gambit \Gam"bit\, n. [F. gambit, cf. It. gambitto gambit, a
tripping up. See Gambol, n.] (Chess Playing)
A mode of opening the game, in which a pawn is sacrificed to
gain an attacking position.
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Iambi
(gcide) | Iambus \I*am"bus\, n.; pl. L. Iambi, E. Iambuses. [L.
iambus, Gr. ?; prob. akin to ? to throw, assail (the iambus
being first used in satiric poetry), and to L. jacere to
throw. Cf. Jet a shooting forth.] (Pros.)
A foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one,
as in [a^]m[=a]ns, or of an unaccented syllable followed by
an accented one, as invent; an iambic. See the Couplet under
Iambic, n.
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Iambic
(gcide) | Iambic \I*am"bic\, a. [L. iambicus, Gr. ?: cf. F. iambique.]
1. (Pros.) Consisting of a short syllable followed by a long
one, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented;
as, an iambic foot.
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2. Pertaining to, or composed of, iambics; as, an iambic
verse; iambic meter. See Lambus.
[1913 Webster]Iambic \I*am"bic\, n.
1. (Pros.)
(a) An iambic foot; an iambus.
(b) A verse composed of iambic feet.
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Note: The following couplet consists of iambic verses.
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Thy gen- | ius calls | thee not | to pur- | chase
fame
In keen | iam- | bics, but | mild an- | agram.
--Dryden.
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2. A satirical poem (such poems having been anciently written
in iambic verse); a satire; a lampoon.
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Iambical
(gcide) | Iambical \I*am"bic*al\, a.
Iambic. [Obs. or R.]
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Iambically
(gcide) | Iambically \I*am"bic*al*ly\, adv.
In a iambic manner; after the manner of iambics.
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Iambize
(gcide) | Iambize \I*am"bize\, v. t. [Gr. ?.]
To satirize in iambics; to lampoon. [R.]
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kitambilla
(gcide) | kitambilla \kitambilla\ n.
1. A small shrubby spiny tree (Dovyalis hebecarpa)
cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple
pulp tasking like gooseberries; it is native to Sri Lanka
and India.
Syn: ketembilla, kitembilla, ketembilla tree, Ceylon
gooseberry, Dovyalis hebecarpa.
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2. A maroon-purple gooseberrylike fruit of India having a
tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves.
Syn: ketembilla, kitembilla.
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Lambing
(gcide) | Lamb \Lamb\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lambed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Lambing.]
To bring forth a lamb or lambs, as sheep.
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Lambis
(gcide) | Lambis \Lambis\ n.
A genus of scorpion shells of shallow tropical waters of
eastern hemisphere.
Syn: genus Lambis.
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Pericambium
(gcide) | Pericambium \Per`i*cam"bi*um\, n. [NL. See Peri-, and
Cambium.] (Biol.)
A layer of thin-walled young cells in a growing stem, in
which layer certain new vessels originate.
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Procambium
(gcide) | Procambium \Pro*cam"bi*um\, n. [NL. See Pro-, and Cambium.]
(Bot.)
The young tissue of a fibrovascular bundle before its
component cells have begun to be differentiated. --Sachs.
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Unambiguity
(gcide) | Unambiguity \Un*am`bi*gu"i*ty\, n.
Absence of ambiguity; clearness; perspicuity.
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Unambiguous
(gcide) | Unambiguous \Unambiguous\
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Unambition
(gcide) | Unambition \Un`am*bi"tion\, n.
The absence of ambition. [R.] --F. W. Newman.
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Unambitious
(gcide) | Unambitious \Unambitious\
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Uncaria Gambir
(gcide) | Gambier \Gam"bier\, n. [Malayan.]
(a) The inspissated juice of a plant (Uncaria Gambir)
growing in Malacca. It is a powerful astringent, and,
under the name of Terra Japonica, is used for chewing
with the Areca nut, and is exported for tanning and
dyeing.
(b) Catechu. [Written also gambeer and gambir.]
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Zambian
(gcide) | Zambian \Zam"bi*an\, prop. n.
a native or inhabitant of Zambia.
[WordNet 1.5]Zambian \Zam"bi*an\ prop. adj.
1. of or pertaining to Zambia; as, Zambian cities.
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2. Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Zambia; as, the
Zambian President.
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