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One of the rods on which the cover of an umbrella is extended.

The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.

mething on or in which anything may be laid, hung, or placed upright; as, a hat stand; an umbrella stand; a music stand.

One of the rods in an umbrella, attached at one end to one of the ribs, and at the other to the tube sliding upon the handle.

xty or seventy feet high, bearing a crown of gigantic fan-shaped leaves which are used as umbrellas and as fans in ceremonial processions, and, when cut into strips, as a substitute for writing paper.

cap, nozzle, ferrule, or point, applied to the extreme end of anything; as, a tip for an umbrella, a shoe, a gas burner, etc.

A name given to many umbrella-shaped fungi, mostly of the genus Agaricus. The species are almost numberless. They grow on decaying organic matter.

A cucking stool; a tumbrel. Cowell.

and by some considered only a variety of the chimpanzee. It is noted for building large, umbrella-shaped nests in trees. Called also tscheigo, tschiego, nschego, nscheigo.

A kind of cart; a tumbrel. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

An umbrere. [Obs.]

Bearing something like an open umbrella.

Having the form of anything that serves to shade, as a tree top, an umbrella, and the like; specifically (Bot.), having the form of an umbrella; umbrella-shaped.

A umbrere. [Obs.]

The circular membrane that partially incloses the space beneath the umbrella of hydroid medusæ.