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2. Strongly desirous; -- followed by of or the infinitive; as, ambitious to be or to do something.

I was not ambitious of seeing this ceremony. Evelyn.

Studious of song, and yet ambitious not to sing in vain. Cowper.

3. Springing from, characterized by, or indicating, ambition; showy; aspiring; as, an ambitious style.

A giant statue . . . Pushed by a wild and artless race, From off wide, ambitious base. Collins.

Am*bi"tious*ly, adv. In an ambitious manner.

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Am*bi"tious*ness (m*bsh"s*ns), n. The quality of being ambitious; ambition; pretentiousness.

||Am"bi*tus (m"b*ts), 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.

2. (Rom. Antiq.) A canvassing for votes.

Am"ble (&?;), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Ambled (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Ambling (&?;).] [F. ambler to amble, fr. L. ambulare to walk, in LL., to amble, perh. fr. amb-, ambi-, and a root meaning to go: cf. Gr. &?; to go, E. base. Cf. Ambulate.] 1. To go at the easy gait called an amble; -- applied to the horse or to its rider.

2. To move somewhat like an ambling horse; to go easily or without hard shocks.

The skipping king, he ambled up and down. Shak.

Sir, your wit ambles well; it goes easily. Shak.

Am"ble, n. 1. A peculiar gait of a horse, in which both legs on the same side are moved at the same time, alternating with the legs on the other side. "A fine easy amble." B. Jonson.

2. A movement like the amble of a horse.

Am"bler (&?;), n. A horse or a person that ambles.

Am"bling*ly, adv. With an ambling gait.

Am*blot"ic (&?;), a. [Gr. &?;, &?;, fr. &?; an abortion.] Tending to cause abortion.

Am"bly*gon (&?;), n. [Gr. &?; obtuse + &?; angle: cf. F. amblygone.] (Geom.) An obtuse-angled figure, esp. and obtuse-angled triangle. [Obs.]

Am*blyg"o*nal (&?;), a. Obtuse- angled. [Obs.] Hutton.

{ ||Am`bly*o"pi*a (&?;), Am"bly*o`py (&?;), } n. [Gr. &?;; &?; blunt, dim + &?; eye: cf. F. amblyopie.] (Med.) Weakness of sight, without and opacity of the cornea, or of the interior of the eye; the first degree of amaurosis.

Am"bly*op"ic (&?;), a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to amblyopy. Quain.

||Am*blyp"o*da (&?;), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; blunt + &?;, &?;, foot.] (Paleon.) A group of large, extinct, herbivorous mammals, common in the Tertiary formation of the United States.

||Am"bo (&?;), n.; pl. Ambos (&?;). [LL. ambo, Gr. &?;, any rising, a raised stage, pulpit: cf. F. ambon.] A large pulpit or reading desk, in the early Christian churches. Gwilt.

||Am"bon (&?;), n. Same as Ambo.

Am*boy"na wood (&?;). A beautiful mottled and curled wood, used in cabinetwork. It is obtained from the Pterocarpus Indicus of Amboyna, Borneo, etc.

Am"bre*ate (&?;), n. (Chem.) A salt formed by the combination of ambreic acid with a base or positive radical.