1598 Florio, Moro..a mulberie tree; also a wart in a horse called an Anburie. [ Also at Selfo.]
1607 Topsell Four-footed Beasts (1673) 327Of an Anbury.
1614 Markham Husb. (1623) 82The Anbury is a bloudy wart on any part of a Horses body.
1617 ― Caval. vii. 84Anbury.
1631 ― Way to Wealth (1668) I. lxii. 66Anbury.
1670 MS. Acct. Bk. of G. Norton of Disforth,P d for takeing of 3 anberryes of 2 oxen, 3s.
1696 Phillips, Ambury, a Disease in Horses, which causes 'em to break forth in spungy Tumors full of hot Blood and Matter.
c1720 W. Gibson Farrier's Guide ii. l. (1738) 192Anburies and other encysted Tumors require a peculiar treatment.
1725 Bradley Fam. Dict. ,Anbury, a kind of Wen. or spungy Wart, growing upon any Part of a Horse's Body, full of Blood.
1775 T. Wallis Farrier'sDict. ,Anbury or Ambury.
1783 Ainsworth Lat. Dict. (Morell)The ambury (in horses), Verruca spongiosa sanguine plena.
1785 Sportsman's Dict. ,Anbury or Ambury.
1816 James Milit. Dict. 13Anbury.
1882 E. Peacock ( in letter)Our farriers and farmers here always call these things Nanberrys. [ North-west Lincolnshire]
1750 W. Ellis Mod. Husb. -man iv. i. 27That common destructive turnip disease..in the sandy grounds of Norfolk..there called Anbury. Fingers-and-toes. [ Also called]
1815 Kirby & Spence Entomol. (1843) I xiv. 383From the knob-like galls on turnips called in some places the ambury I have bred another of these weevils.
1833 Penny Cycl. I. 504/2Cabbages or turnips whose roots are infected with anbury.
1839 Rees Encycl. Agric. 861The forked excrescences known as fingers and toes in some places, and as the anbury in others. [ in turnips]
1878 R. Thompson Gard. Assist. (ed. Moore) x. 279/2The anbury has been attributed to the agency of insects, but these are now generally considered to be a consequence, and not the cause, of the malformation.
amb-
combining form. the form of ambi- before vowels, as in ambages.
Amb.
ambassador.