amblyurus

[Gr. ἀμβλύς ( amblus ) = blunt; οὐρά ( our a )=tail.] A genus of lepidoid fishes. A. macros tom us is found in the English lias. ăm-bō (pl. ăm-bōs, ăm-bō-nēs), s. [Fr. & Ital. ambone; Gr. ἄμβων (ambōn), gen it. ἄμβωνος (ambōnos) = any rising, as of a hill; in later Greek, a raised stage, a pulpit, or reading-desk. From ἀναβαίνω (anabainō) = to go up; ἀνά ( ana ) = up, and βαίνω ( bainō ) =to go. Ambo is cognate with the Latin umbo , gen it. umbonis a convex elevation; a bo , as of a shield.] Arch.: A pulpit or reading-desk in the early and med iæval churches. Sometimes there AMBON. were two ambones, one for reading the Gospel, and the other for reading the epistle; but in most cases one sufficed. ( Glo . of Arch .) "The principal use of this ambo was to read the Scriptures to the people, especially the epistles and gospels. They read the gospel there yet, and not at the altar." Sir G. Wheler: Des. of Anc. Churches, p. 78. "The admirers of antiquity have been beating their brains about their ambones."-Milton: Ref. in Eng., bk. i.