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  • English Word Umbles Definition The entrails and coarser parts of a deer; hence, sometimes, entrails, in general.
  • English Word Umbo Definition The boss of a shield, at or near the middle, and usually projecting, sometimes in a sharp spike.
  • English Word Umbo Definition A boss, or rounded elevation, or a corresponding depression, in a palate, disk, or membrane; as, the umbo in the integument of the larvae of echinoderms or in the tympanic membrane of the ear.
  • English Word Umbo Definition One of the lateral prominence just above the hinge of a bivalve shell.
  • English Word Umbonate Definition Alt. of Umbonated
  • English Word Umbonated Definition Having a conical or rounded projection or protuberance, like a boss.
  • English Word Umbones Definition of Umbo
  • English Word Umbos Definition of Umbo
  • English Word Umbra Definition The conical shadow projected from a planet or satellite, on the side opposite to the sun, within which a spectator could see no portion of the sun's disk; -- used in contradistinction from penumbra. See Penumbra.
  • English Word Umbra Definition The central dark portion, or nucleus, of a sun spot.
  • English Word Umbra Definition The fainter part of a sun spot; -- now more commonly called penumbra.
  • English Word Umbra Definition Any one of several species of sciaenoid food fishes of the genus Umbrina, especially the Mediterranean species (U. cirrhosa), which is highly esteemed as a market fish; -- called also ombre, and umbrine.
  • English Word Umbraculiferous Definition Bearing something like an open umbrella.
  • English Word Umbraculiform Definition 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.
  • English Word Umbrae Definition of Umbra
  • English Word Umbrage Definition The feeling of being overshadowed; jealousy of another, as standing in one's light or way; hence, suspicion of injury or wrong; offense; resentment.
  • English Word Umbrage Definition Shade; shadow; obscurity; hence, that which affords a shade, as a screen of trees or foliage.
  • English Word Umbrage Definition Shadowy resemblance; shadow.
  • English Word Umbrageous Definition Feeling jealousy or umbrage; taking, or disposed to take, umbrage; suspicious.
  • English Word Umbrageous Definition Forming or affording a shade; shady; shaded; as, umbrageous trees or foliage.
  • English Word Umbrageous Definition Not easily perceived, as if from being darkened or shaded; obscure.
  • English Word Umbrate Definition To shade; to shadow; to foreshadow.
  • English Word Umbratic Definition Alt. of Umbratical
  • English Word Umbratical Definition Of or pertaining to the shade or darkness; shadowy; unreal; secluded; retired.
  • English Word Umbratile Definition Umbratic.
  • English Word Umbratious Definition Suspicious; captious; disposed to take umbrage.
  • English Word Umbre Definition See Umber.
  • English Word Umbrel Definition An umbrella.
  • English Word Umbrella Definition Any marine tectibranchiate gastropod of the genus Umbrella, having an umbrella-shaped shell; -- called also umbrella shell.
  • English Word Umbrella Definition A shade, screen, or guard, carried in the hand for sheltering the person from the rays of the sun, or from rain or snow. It is formed of silk, cotton, or other fabric, extended on strips of whalebone, steel, or other elastic material, inserted, or fastened to, a rod or stick by means of pivots or hinges, in such a way as to allow of being opened and closed with ease. See Parasol.