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[From Ambrose, Bishop Milan.] [AMBROSIAN.] Numis. A coin struck in med iæval times by the dukes of Milan, on which Ambrose was represented on horseback holding in his right hand a whip. ăm-brỹ, * ăm'-brie, * âum-bry, * âum'ber, *ăm-běr, * âum-er-ỹ, * âum-rỹ, *al-mar-ỹ, * al-měr-ỹ, s. [In Fr. armoire = a cupboard; Sp. & Port. armario , almario ; Ital. armario , armadio = a pre , a chest; Ger. almera cupboard; Mediæv. Lat. almariolum (Cla . Lat. armariolum ) = a little chest or closet, a small book-case; Mediæv. Lat. almarium (Cla . Lat. armarium ) = a place for tools; hence a chest for clothing, money, .; arm a = tools, implements. In the Middle Ages, according to Ducange, bookcases and libraries were called armaria .] 1. Gen. A cupboard or a chest, specially one designed to contain the tools, implements, ve els, or books needed for one's profe ion or calling. IMG:content-0447.png:[graphic] IMG:content-0448.png:[graphic] AMBRY. (a) The niche or cupboard near the altar in a church, designed to hold the utensils requisite for conducting worship, or otherwise be convenient to the officiating priests. Sometimes the ambry is a hollow space within the wall itself, at others it is a wooden box affixed to the surface of the wall. Ambries were also placed in monasteries for the convenience of the monks. (See examples in Glo . of Arch .) (b) A cupboard, cabinet, or case for keeping the most needful books of a student, or anything similar. 182 " Almariolum , a lytell almary or a cobbarde. Scrinium , Anglice, almery ."- Prompt . Pare. "All my lytell bokes I putt in almeries (scriniis char tophi lac i is, forulis, vel armariis ), all my greatter bok is I put in my lyberary."-Prompt. Paro. (c) A close pre or cupboard for keeping cold victuals, bread, . (0. Eng . & Scotch .) "The only furniture, excepting a washing-tub and & wooden pre , called in Scotland an ambry."-Scott: Waverley, ch. xxxvii. (d) A safe for keeping meat. "Almery of mete kepynge, or a saue for mete. Cibutum.-Prompt. Parv. "Almery, aumbry to put meate in, unes almoires." -Palsg. (Prompt. Parv.) 2. Le properly: The place where an almoner lives, and where alms are distributed; an almonry; the similarity of sound between this and an almery causing the two words to be confounded. Nor is the error much to be lamented, since alms previous to distribution were often kept in an almery, or cupboard. [ALMONRY.] 3. A chronicle, an archive. (ARMARY.] "These same thing is weren born in disc rip cio uns and the almeries ( com men tar i is , Vulg.] of Neemye." Wycliffe : 2 Mace . 11. 18.