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About. [Obs.] Layamon.

To cast about; to consider; to ponder. [Obs.] Sir T. Malory.

ilkweed. It is simple or compound; in the latter case, each peduncle bears another little umbel, called umbellet, or umbellule.

Of or pertaining to an umbel; having the form of an umbel.

Bearing umbels; pertaining to an umbel; umbel-like; as, umbellate plants or flowers.

A small or partial umbel; an umbellule.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, certain umbelliferous plants; as, umbellic acid. Umbellic acid. (Chem.) (a) Anisic acid. [Obs.] (b) A yellow powder obtained from umbelliferone.

A plant producing an umbel or umbels.

n plant (Daphne Mezereum), and also obtained by the distillation of certain gums from the Umbelliferæ, as galbanum, asafetida, etc. It is analogous to coumarin. Called also hydroxy- coumarin.

Producing umbels.

A genus of deep-sea alcyonaria consisting of a cluster of large flowerlike polyps situated at the summit of a long, slender stem which stands upright in the mud, supported by a bulbous base.

An umbellet.

nd manganese. It is commonly heated or burned before being used, and is then called burnt umber; when not heated, it is called raw umber. See Burnt umber, below.

Of or pertaining to umber; like umber; as, umbery gold.

The state of being accumbent or reclining. [R.]

Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals. The Roman.. accumbent posture in eating. Arbuthnot.

To encumber. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A number that precedes another. [R.] Bacon.

Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; as, a benumbed body and mind. -- Be*numbed"ness, n.

To discharge ordure or dung upon. [Obs.] B. Jonson.