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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 ]

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 ]

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

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 ]

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. Made up of, or divided into, lobules; as, a lobulated gland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) An insect having mandibles. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. (Zool.) Provided with mandibles adapted for biting, as many insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Clouded with indistinct color markings, as an animal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The condition of being nebulated; also, a clouded, or ill-defined, color mark. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. nox, noctis, night + ambulare to walk: cf. F. noctambulation. ] Somnambulism; sleepwalking; walking in one's sleep. Quain. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. Having an ovate form, but with a subulate tip or extremity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. pabulatio, fr. pabulari to feed, fr. pabulum food. See Pabulum. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of feeding, or providing food. [ Obs. ] Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Food; fodder; pabulum. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Hanged on a gallows. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To walk about; to ramble; to stroll; as, he perambulated in the park. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Perambulated p. pr. & vb. n. Perambulating. ] [ L. perambulatus, p. p. of perambulare to perambulate; per through + ambulare to walk. See Per-, and Amble. ] To walk through or over; especially, to travel over for the purpose of surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing; specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of a town or parish, by walking over the whole line. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. [ pr. p. of perambulate (definition 2). ] Strolling or walking around; as, in the field we met some perambulating veterans. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. The act of perambulating; traversing. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An annual survey of boundaries, as of town, a parish, a forest, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A district within which one is authorized to make a tour of inspection. “The . . . bounds of his own perambulation.” [ Obs. ] Holyday. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who perambulates. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A surveyor's instrument for measuring distances. It consists of a wheel arranged to roll along over the ground, with an apparatus of clockwork, and a dial plate upon which the distance traveled is shown by an index. See Odometer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A low carriage for a child, propelled by pushing; a baby carriage; -- called also pram, in Britain. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. [ Plano- + subulate. ] Smooth and awl-shaped. See Subulate. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. praeambulare. See Preamble. ] To walk before. [ R. ] Jordan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A walking or going before; precedence. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A preamble. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Preceding; going before; introductory. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Simon Magus had preambulatory impieties. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & t. To walk when asleep. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. somnus sleep + ambulatio a walking about, from ambulare to walk. See Somnolent, Amble. ] The act of walking in sleep, called also sleepwalking. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A somnambulist.
Syn. -- sleepwalker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. stabulatio, fr. stabulari to stable cattle, fr. stabulum. See Stable, n. ] 1. The act of stabling or housing beasts. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A place for lodging beasts; a stable. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ NL. subulatus, fr. L. subula an awl. ] Very narrow, and tapering gradually to a fine point from a broadish base; awl-shaped; linear. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. tabulatus floored. ] (Zool.) An artificial group of stony corals including those which have transverse septa in the calicles. The genera Pocillopora and Favosites are examples. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Tabulated p. pr. & vb. n. Tabulating. ] [ L. tabula a table. See Tabular. ] 1. To form into a table or tables; to reduce to tables or synopses. [ 1913 Webster ]

A philosophy is not worth the having, unless its results may be tabulated, and put in figures. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To shape with a flat surface. [ 1913 Webster ]