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a. [ L. ad + E. ambulacral. ] (Zool.) Next to the ambulacra; as, the adambulacral ossicles of the starfish. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A genus of fish, the type and sole genus of the family Albulidae.
Syn. -- genus Albula. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to ambulacra; avenuelike; as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Ambulacrum + -form ] (Zool.) Having the form of ambulacra. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Ambulacra [ L., an alley or covered way. ] (Zool.) (a) One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays. (b) One of the suckers on the feet of mites. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ambulance, hôpital ambulant, fr. L. ambulare to walk. See Amble. ] (Mil.) (a) A field hospital, so organized as to follow an army in its movements, and intended to succor the wounded as soon as possible. Often used adjectively; as, an ambulance wagon; ambulance stretcher; ambulance corps. (b) An ambulance wagon or cart for conveying the wounded from the field, or to a hospital. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ambulans, p. pr. of ambulare to walk: cf. F. ambulant. ] Walking; moving from place to place. Gayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. ambulare to walk. See Amble. ] To walk; to move about. [ R. ] Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ambulatio. ] The act of walking. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Walking. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who walks about; a walker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) (a) A beetle of the genus Lamia. (b) A genus of birds, or one of this genus. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An instrument for measuring distances; -- called also perambulator. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Ambulatory; fitted for walking. Verrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ambulatorius. ] 1. Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory animal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable; as, an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places. [ 1913 Webster ]

The priesthood . . . before was very ambulatory, and dispersed into all families. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Pertaining to a walk. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The princess of whom his majesty had an ambulatory view in his travels. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Away from the ambulacral region. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Native name. ] (Zool.) An East Indian insectivorous mammal (Gymnura Rafflesii), somewhat like a rat in appearance, but allied to the hedgehog. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. circumambulatus, p. p. of circumambulare to walk around; circum + ambulare. See Ambulate. ] To walk round about. -- Cir`cum*am`bu*la"tion n. [1913 Webster]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Confabulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Confabulating. ] [ L. confabulatus, p. p. of confabulary, to converse together; con- + fabulary to speak, fr. fabula. See Fable. ] To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle. [ 1913 Webster ]

I shall not ask Jean Jaques Rousseau
If birds confabulate or no. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. confabulatio. ] Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Friends' confabulations are comfortable at all times, as fire in winter. Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the nature of familiar talk; in the form of a dialogue. Weever. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Pref. con- + globule. ] To gather into a small round mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. constabularius an equerry. See Constable. ] Of or pertaining to constables; consisting of constables. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The collective body of constables in any town, district, or country. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A constabulary. [ Obs. ] Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ L., a cradle, earliest abode, fr. cunae cradle. ] 1. The earliest abode; original dwelling place; originals; as, the cunabula of the human race. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bibliography) The extant copies of the first or earliest printed books, or of such as were printed in the 15th century. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. deambulare, deambulatum; de- + ambulare to walk. ] To walk abroad. [ Obs. ] Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. deambulatio. ] A walking abroad; a promenading. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. LL. deambulator a traveler. ] Going about from place to place; wandering; of or pertaining to a deambulatory. [ Obs. ] “Deambulatory actors.” Bp. Morton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. deambulatorium. ] A covered place in which to walk; an ambulatory. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. to cause to be confused; confuse emotionally.
Syn. -- confuse, flurry, consternate, disconcert, put off, bewilder, bemuse, throw. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. confused; upset; as, the hecklers pelted the discombobulated speaker with anything that came to hand.
Syn. -- discomfited, discomfitted, disconcerted. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n.; pl. fibulæ [ L., clasp, buckle. ] 1. A brooch, clasp, or buckle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mere fibulæ, without a robe to clasp. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) The outer and usually the smaller of the two bones of the leg, or hind limb, below the knee. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Surg.) A needle for sewing up wounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to the fibula. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Fibularia [ NL. See Fibula. ] (Anat.) The bone or cartilage of the tarsus, which articulates with the fibula, and corresponds to the calcaneum in man and most mammals. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ See Funambulo. ] To walk or to dance on a rope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Ropedancing. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Performing like a ropedancer. Chambers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Narrow, like the walk of a ropedancer. [ 1913 Webster ]

This funambulatory track. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. globulaire. ] Globe-shaped; having the form of a ball or sphere; spherical, or nearly so; as, globular atoms. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Globular chart, a chart of the earth's surface constructed on the principles of the globular projection. --
Globular projection (Map Projection), a perspective projection of the surface of a hemisphere upon a plane parallel to the base of the hemisphere, the point of sight being taken in the axis produced beyond the surface of the opposite hemisphere a distance equal to the radius of the sphere into the sine of 45°. --
Globular sailing, sailing on the arc of a great circle, or so as to make the shortest distance between two places; circular sailing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being globular; globosity; sphericity. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Spherically. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Sphericity; globosity. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Hyo- + mandibular. ] (Anat.) Pertaining both to the hyoidean arch and the mandible or lower jaw; as, the hyomandibular bone or cartilage, a segment of the hyoid arch which connects the lower jaw with the skull in fishes. -- n. The hyomandibular bone or cartilage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. infibulare, infibulatum, to clasp, buckle, or button together; pref. in- in + fibula clasp, buckle: cf. F. infibulation. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of clasping, or fastening, as with a buckle or padlock. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of attaching a ring, clasp, or frame, to the genital organs in such a manner as to prevent copulation. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ See Infundibulum. ] Having the form of a funnel; pertaining to an infundibulum. [ 1913 Webster ]

Infundibulate Bryozoa (Zool.), a group of marine Bryozoa having a circular arrangement of the tentacles upon the disk. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the interambulacra. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. L. Interambulacra E. Interambulacrums (Zool.) In echinoderms, one of the areas or zones intervening between two ambulacra. See Illust. of Ambulacrum. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Between globules; -- applied esp. to certain small spaces, surrounded by minute globules, in dentine. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. inter- + lobular: cf. F. interlobulaire. ] (Anat.) Between lobules; as, the interlobular branches of the portal vein. [ 1913 Webster ]