a person who can use both hands with the same facility, and for the same purposes, that the generality of people use their right hand. Many think that, were it not for education and habit, all mankind would be ambidexters; and, in fact, we frequently find nurses obliged to be at a good deal of pains before they can bring children to forego the use of their left hand. The apparent cause why the right arm is generally most in use is, that the impetus of the heart is more directly communicated, in the ordinary structure, to the right subclavian artery than to the left, and therefore more blood is thrown into the former: but in true ambidexters the structure is similar on both sides.

among English Lawyers, a juror or embracer who accepts money of both parties for giving his verdict; an offence for which he is liable to be imprisoned, for ever excluded from a jury, and to pay ten times the sum he accepted.