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