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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 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 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 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 Umbrageous Definition Feeling jealousy or umbrage; taking, or disposed to take, umbrage; suspicious.
  • 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 The umbrellalike disk, or swimming bell, of a jellyfish.