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a spectator could see no portion of the sun's disk; -- used in contradistinction from penumbra. See Penumbra.

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.

of trees or foliage. Where highest woods, impenetrable To star or sunlight, spread their umbrage broad. Milton.

Forming or affording a shade; shady; shaded; as, umbrageous trees or foliage. Umbrageous grots and caves Of cool recess, o'er which the mantling vine Lays forth her purple grape. Milton.

To shade; to shadow; to foreshadow. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to the shade or darkness; shadowy; unreal; secluded; retired. [R.] B. Jonson.

Umbratic. [R.] B. Jonson.

Suspicious; captious; disposed to take umbrage. [Obs. & R.] Sir H. Wotton.

Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth.

rth. Both in the vastness and the richness of the visible universe the invisible God is adumbrated. L. Taylor.

The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth.

Faintly representing; typical. Carlyle.

Encumbrance. [Obs.] Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare. Milton.

Freedom or deliverance from encumbrance, or anything burdensome or troublesome. Spectator.

hich impedes action, or renders it difficult and laborious; a clog; an impediment. See Incumbrance.

Same as Incumbrancer.

A burdensome and troublesome load; anything that impedes motion or action, or renders it difficult or laborious; clog; impediment; hindrance; check. Cowper.

One who holds Kent.

To shade; to darken. [Obs.]