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such a way as to allow of being opened and closed with ease. See Parasol. Underneath the umbrella's oily shed. Gay.

The integument of the under surface of the bell, or disk-shaped body, of a jellyfish.

A variety of pigeon. Clarke. Dragoon bird (Zoöl.), the umbrella bird.

The soft, spongy wood of a species of Magnolia (M. Umbrella).

The leaves of the latter are often eighteen feet long and fourteen wide, and are used for umbrellas, tents, and roofs. When cut up, they are used for books and manuscripts.

The ribs and stretchers of an umbrella or other structure with a fabric covering.

A large umbrella; --said to allude to Mrs. Gamp's umbrella, in Dickens's "Martin Chuzzlewit."

The swimming bell or umbrella of a jellyfish of medusa.

A contrivance somewhat in the form of an umbrella, by means of which a descent may be made from a balloon, or any eminence.

A kind of small umbrella used by women as a protection from the sun.

dark-colored and striated wood of some kind of palm, which is used for walking sticks and umbrella handles. -- Sea partridge (Zoöl.), an Asiatic sand partridge (Ammoperdix Bonhami); -- so called from its note. -- Snow partridge (Zoöl.), a large spurred partridge (Lerwa nivicola) which inhabits the high mountains of A…

Having an umbrella-shaped or bell-shaped body, with a wide, open cavity beneath; -- said of certain jellyfishes.

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.

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.