Amble

  • 121ambler — Ambler, verb. neutr. acut. Est aller l amble, et vient du Latin Ambulare, par syncope: mais il y a une peculiere signification en François, comme a esté dit au vocable Amble. Tollutim incedere. Ce qui est dit de toute beste de quatre pieds… …

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  • 122am´bling|ly — am|ble «AM buhl», noun, verb, bled, bling. –n. 1. the way a horse or mule goes when it lifts first the two legs on one side and then the two on the other; pace; rack. 2. an easy, slow pace in walking: »the amble of a fat dog. –v.i. 1. to go at an …

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  • 123am´bler — am|ble «AM buhl», noun, verb, bled, bling. –n. 1. the way a horse or mule goes when it lifts first the two legs on one side and then the two on the other; pace; rack. 2. an easy, slow pace in walking: »the amble of a fat dog. –v.i. 1. to go at an …

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  • 124am|ble — «AM buhl», noun, verb, bled, bling. –n. 1. the way a horse or mule goes when it lifts first the two legs on one side and then the two on the other; pace; rack. 2. an easy, slow pace in walking: »the amble of a fat dog. –v.i. 1. to go at an amble …

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  • 125Geometrical pace — pace pace (p[=a]s), n. [OE. pas, F. pas, from L. passus a step, pace, orig., a stretching out of the feet in walking; cf. pandere, passum, to spread, stretch; perh. akin to E. patent. Cf. {Pas}, {Pass}.] 1. A single movement from one foot to the… …

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  • 126pace — (p[=a]s), n. [OE. pas, F. pas, from L. passus a step, pace, orig., a stretching out of the feet in walking; cf. pandere, passum, to spread, stretch; perh. akin to E. patent. Cf. {Pas}, {Pass}.] 1. A single movement from one foot to the other in… …

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  • 127Tilt — Tilt, v. t. [OE. tilten, tulten, to totter, fall, AS. tealt unstable, precarious; akin to tealtrian to totter, to vacillate, D. tel amble, ambling pace, G. zelt, Icel. t[ o]lt an ambling pace, t[ o]lta to amble. Cf. {Totter}.] 1. To incline; to… …

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  • 128To hold pace with — pace pace (p[=a]s), n. [OE. pas, F. pas, from L. passus a step, pace, orig., a stretching out of the feet in walking; cf. pandere, passum, to spread, stretch; perh. akin to E. patent. Cf. {Pas}, {Pass}.] 1. A single movement from one foot to the… …

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