fun ambulant (fun ambulant)

[L. fun is, a rope, + ambulan ( t- ) s, ppr. of ambulare, walk: see amble. Cf. funambulate.] A rope-walker; a funambulist. [Rare.] He's fain to stand like the Fun ambulant , Who seems to tread the air, and fall he must, Save his Self's waight him counter-poyseth iust. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Decay. funambulate (fū-nam'bū-lāt), v. i.; pret. and pp . funambulated , ppr. funambulating . [ fun is , a rope, + ambulatus , pp. of ambulare , walk: see amble , v. Cf. funambulus .] To walk on a rope. [Rare.]