Hypertext Webster Gateway: "ambulatory"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Ambulatory \Am"bu*la*to*ry\, n.; pl. {Ambulatories}. [Cf. LL.
ambulatorium.] (Arch.)
A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery
of a cloister, or within a building.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Ambulatory \Am"bu*la*to*ry\, a. [L. ambulatorius.]
1. Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of
walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory
animal.

2. Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary;
movable; as, an ambulatory court, which exercises its
jurisdiction in different places.

The priesthood . . . before was very ambulatory, and
dispersed into all families. --Jer. Taylor.

3. Pertaining to a walk. [R.]

The princess of whom his majesty had an ambulatory
view in his travels. --Sir H.
Wotton.

4. (Law) Not yet fixed legally, or settled past alteration;
alterable; as, the dispositions of a will are ambulatory
until the death of the testator.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

ambulatory
adj : able to walk about; "the patient is ambulatory" [syn: {ambulant}]

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