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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. (archaic) roundabout or mysterious ways of action;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ambages \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. [1913 Webster] After many ambages, perspicuously define what this melancholy is. --Burton. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

ambages n 1: (archaic) roundabout or mysterious ways of action
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

45 Moby Thesaurus words for "ambages": anfractuosity, bypass, circuit, circuitousness, circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, circumvolution, convolution, crinkle, crinkling, detour, deviation, deviousness, digression, excursion, flexuosity, flexuousness, indirection, intorsion, involution, meander, meandering, obliqueness, periphrase, periphrasis, rivulation, roundabout, roundabout way, roundaboutness, sinuation, sinuosity, sinuousness, slinkiness, snakiness, torsion, tortility, tortuosity, tortuousness, turning, twisting, undulation, wave, waving, winding