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UMBER n. 6 definitions

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.

To encumber. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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

BESCUMBER; BESCUMMER v.

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

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

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…

CUMBER v. 2 definitions

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…

CUMBERSOME a. 2 definitions

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

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.

ENCUMBER v. 2 definitions

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.

ENCUMBERMENT n.

Encumbrance. [R.]

LUMBER n. 8 definitions

in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn. [Obs.] They put all the little plate they had in the lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came. Lady Murray.

LUMBER STATE n.

Maine; -- a nickname.

One employed in lumbering, cutting, and getting logs from the forest for lumber; a lumberman. [U.S.] Lumberers have a notion that he (the woodpecker) is harmful to timber. Lowell.

The business of cutting or getting timber or logs from the forest for lumber. [U.S.]

One who is engaged in lumbering as a business or employment. [U.S.]

To number wrongly.