Am bag i no us, Amba

GIOUS, and AMBIG'ITORY. [Lat. ambagiosus.] Circumlocutory; perplexed; tedious; indirect. (R.) Ambala'ga, a town in the island of Madura, Malay Archipelago; pop. 4,000. Am bar vali a. [Lat. from ab ambien dis arvis, going around the fields) Proce ions round ploughed fields, celebrated by the Romans in April and July, in honor of Ceres, the godde of corn. They went three times round their fields, crowned with oak-leaves, singing hymns to Ceres, and entreating her to preserve their corn. A sow, a sheep, and a bull, called A. host iæ , were afterwards immolated, and the sacrifice has sometimes been called suovetaurilia , from sus , ovis , and taurus .