Index of English words, starting with "am"

(1) - Ambulance (n.) An ambulance wagon or cart for conveying the wounded from the field, or to a hospital.
(2) - Ambulance (n.) 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.

(1) - Ambulant (a.) Walking; moving from place to place.

(1) - Ambulate (v. i.) To walk; to move about.

(1) - Ambulatory (n.) A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building.
(2) - Ambulatory (a.) Not yet fixed legally, or settled past alteration; alterable; as, the dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator.
(3) - Ambulatory (a.) Pertaining to a walk.
(4) - Ambulatory (a.) Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable; as, an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places.
(5) - Ambulatory (a.) Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory animal.

(1) - Ambuscade (v. i.) To lie in ambush.
(2) - Ambuscade (v. t.) To lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or lurking place; to waylay.
(3) - Ambuscade (v. t.) To post or conceal in ambush; to ambush.
(4) - Ambuscade (v. t.) The body of troops lying in ambush.
(5) - Ambuscade (v. t.) A place in which troops lie hid, to attack an enemy unexpectedly.
(6) - Ambuscade (v. t.) A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush.