ambush, embush

t. & i. [From the substantive.] 1. Trans.: To place in ambush; to cause to lie in wait. "When Ilion in the horse receiv'd her doom. And unseen armies ambush'd in its womb." Pope: Homer's Ody ey, bk. xi., 639-40. Reciprocally: To conceal one's self. "What council, nobles, have we now?- To ambush us in greenwood bough." Scott: Lord of the Isles, v. 18. 2. In trans.: To lie in wait, as soldiers for their enemy, or an a a in for his victim. The use of the word as a verb is almost entirely confined to poetry. ăm'-bushed, pa. par. [AMBUSH, v.1.] "The soft and smother'd step of those that fear Surprise from ambush'd foes." Hemans: The Last Const an tine , 80, "Haste, to our ambush'd friends the news convey." Pope: Homer's Ody ey, bk. xvi., 365, ăm-bush-ing, pr. par. [AMBUSH, v.] † ăm'-bush-ment, * ěm'-büsh-měnt, * ěm'-bu e-měnt, * ěm'-boy eměnt, bu h'-ment, s. [Eng. ambush; -ment.) An ambush (q.v.). "But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them."-2 Chron. xiii. 18 Saw not nor heard the ambushment ." Scott : Rokeby, iv. 27. *ăm-bust, a [Lat. ambustus , pa. par. of amburo to burn around, to scorch; from pref. amb = about, and uro = to burn.) Burnt, scalded. (Johnson)