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A glass used in subliming camphor. [Spelled also bombolo and bumbolo.]

A roundabout or indirect way. [Jocular] Goldsmith.

A kind of field spaniel, with short legs and stout body, which, unlike other spaniels, hunts silently.

A genus of univale shells, abundant in tropical seas. Some species, as Columbella mercatoria, were formerly used as shell money.

h or picked. Also, similar plants or fruits of several other genera. See below. Bitter cucumber (Bot.), the Citrullus or Cucumis Colocynthis. SeeColocynth. -- Cucumber beetle. (Zoöl.) (a) A small, black flea-beetle (Crepidodera cucumeris), which destroys the leaves of cucumber, squash, and melon vines. (b) The squash…

Lying down; recumbent. J. Dyer.

essly; to embarrass; to trouble. Why asks he what avails him not in fight, And would but cumber and retard his flight Dryden. Martha was cumbered about much serving. Luke x. 40. Cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground Luke xiii. 7. The multiplying variety of arguments, especially frivolous ones, . . . but cumbers the…

nsome or hindering, as a weight or drag; embarrassing; vexatious; cumbrous. To perform a cumbersome obedience. Sir. P. Sidney.

The act or posture of lying down. The ancient manner of decumbency. Sir T. Browne.

Lying down; prostrate; recumbent. The decumbent portraiture of a woman. Ashmole.

In a decumbent posture.

The act of reclining at table according to the manner of the ancients at their meals. Sir T. Browne.

To free from that which cumbers or impedes; to disencumber. [Archaic] Pope.

ce, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden. Owen. I have disencumbered myself from rhyme. Dryden.

The sound of a beaten drum; drum music. Whose morning drumbeat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. D. Webster.

something superfluous; to weigh down; to obstruct or embarrass; as, his movements were encumbered by his mantle; his mind is encumbered with useless learning. Not encumbered with any notable inconvenience. Hooker.

Encumbrance. [R.]

The state of being incumbent; a lying or resting on something.

Lying; resting; reclining; recumbent; superimposed; superincumbent. Two incumbent figures, gracefully leaning upon it. Sir H. Wotton. To move the incumbent load they try. Addison.

In an incumbent manner; so as to be incumbent.