ambarie, ambaree

[Mahratta ambaree.] The covered seat on the back of an elephant, better known as a howdah. ăm-bas-sāde, s. [Fr.] [EMBASSY.] "When you disgraced me in my amba ade , Then I degraded you from being king." Shakesp .: 3 Henry VI ., iv. 8. ăm-băs-sa-dor, * ăm-băs-sa-doŭr, * ěm-băs-sa-dor, s. [In Sw. amba adör; Dan. amba ador ; Fr. amba adeur ; Sp. em bazador ; Port. embaixador ; Ital. ambascia dore, a mba sci a tore an amba ador; amba iadorazzo = a deputy; ambascioso = full of grief and sorrow; a mba sci are to pant; am bascia shortne of breath, suffocation; Low Lat. ambasciari = to carry a me age; Lat. ambactus = a va al, a dependant upon a lord. Cognate with A.S. ambiht , ambeht , am byht, embeht, ombihta servant, me enger, legate; Dut. ambacht , trade, handicraft, profe ion, busine ; Ger. amten, amtiren = to perform the duties of an office; amt = charge, place, office, magistracy; O. H. Ger. ampah tanto minister, ambaht = a minister, also service; Goth. and bahts = a minister, a servant, and baht i = service, ministry; according to Grimm, from and (Ger. amt) = office, and bak back.] [EMBASSY.] of amba ador. In Sw. amba adris; Fr. am ba a drice; Ital. a mba sci a drice; Port. em baixitriz.] 1. The wife of an amba ador. 2. A woman sent on a me age of any kind. (Used generally in a mock-heroic sense.) ""Again!" she cried, 'are you amba adre es From him to me?'"' Tennyson: The Prince , iii. * †ăm-băs-sage, *ăm-bas-sy, ambās-săt-ě, *ăm-bas-sat-ry-ě ( Old Eng .), ăm-bas-si-ạt, * ăm-bax-ạt (Old Scotch), s. [In Sw. amba ad; Fr. am ba ede; Port. embaixada ; Ital. a mba sci a to .] An emba y. "Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an amba age, and desireth conditions of peace."- Luke xiv. 32. "What needeth gretter dilatacioun I say by tretys and am ba a trye , And by the pope's mediacioun." Chaucer: C. T., 4,653. "The kynge then gaue unto that hye amba ate , Full riche giftes and gold enoughe to spende." Hardynge: Chron., fol. 74, b. "Than the am ba i at that was return it agane From Diomedes. ."- Douglas : Virgil , 369 "Our soverane lord is legacioun and ambaxat . Act. Dom. Conc. (1491), p. 200.