{ Am"a*zon*ite (&?;), Am"a*zon stone` (&?;), } n. [Named from the river Amazon.] (Min.) A variety of feldspar, having a verdigris-green color.
Amb-, Am*bi-. [L. prefix ambi-, amb-, akin to Gr. &?;, Skr. abhi, AS. embe, emb, OHG. umbi, umpi, G. um, and also L. ambo both. Cf. Amphi-, Both, By.] A prefix meaning about, around; -- used in words derived from the Latin.
||Am*ba"ges (&?;), n. pl. [L. (usually in pl.); pref. ambi-, amb- + agere to drive: cf. F. ambage.] A circuit; a winding. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech.
After many ambages, perspicuously define what this melancholy is.
Burton.