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in mud. [Slang] - - Mud minnow (Zoöl.), any small American fresh-water fish of the genus Umbra, as U. limi. The genus is allied to the pickerels. -- Mud plug, a plug for stopping the mudhole of a boiler. -- Mud puppy (Zoöl.), the menobranchus. -- Mud scow, a heavy scow, used in dredging; a mud boat. [U.S.] -- Mud t…

The state or quality of being obese; incumbrance of flesh.

A large Mediterranean food fish (Umbrina cirrhosa): -- called also umbra, and umbrine.

-- a means adopted at Athens to rid the city of a person whose talent and influence gave umbrage.

An imperfect and faint representation; adumbration; indistinct image; dim bodying forth; hence, mystical reprresentation; type. The law having a shadow of good things to come. Heb. x. 1. [Types] and shadows of that destined seed. Milton.

A faint representation; an adumbration. There are . . . in savage theology shadowings, quaint or majestic, of the conception of a Supreme Deity. Tylor.

A beautiful tropical palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera), a native of Ceylon and the Malabar coast. It has a trunk sixty 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.…

Casting or making a shade; umbrageous. -- Um*brif"er*ous*ly, adv.

See Umbra, 2.

Shady; umbrageous. [Obs.]

To disencumber of a clog, or of difficulties and obstructions; to free from encumbrances; to set at liberty. Shak.

Free from pecuniary difficulties or encumbrances; as, he and his property are unembarrassed.

To free from incumbrance; to disencumber.