Aby vs Amby - What's the difference?

aby | amby |

As a verb aby

is to pay for; to buy.

an ambidextrous person.

* abye * abuy

(obsolete) To pay for; to buy.

(archaic) To pay the penalty for; atone for.

* Lest to thy peril thou aby it dear. - Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, III,ii

(obsolete) To pay the penalty; atone; to suffer, as a penalty.

(archaic) To pay as penalty, to suffer.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:

Who dyes, the utmost dolor doth abye ; / But who that lives is lefte to waile his losse [...].

(obsolete) Endure; remain.

* , Aby and abide became confused with each other for a period of time.

(ambies)

(informal) An ambidextrous person.

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* 1999 , Cliff Gromer (ed.), " Great Stuff", Popular Mechanics , August 1999:

The slim design makes for easy one-hand opening for righties, lefties and ambies .

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* 2001 , Rita Robinson, Discover Yourself Through Palm Reading , New Page Books (2001), ISBN 1564145425, page 41:

Medical scientists speculate that lefties and ambies exercise their brains more and grow more cells.