UMBO
UM'BO, noun [Latin] The boss or protuberant part of a shield.
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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UM'BO, noun [Latin] The boss or protuberant part of a shield.
UMBOLDILITE, noun [from Humboldt.] A newly discovered Vesuvian mineral, whose primitive form is a right rectangular prism, with a square base, its color brown, inclining to yell...
UM'BRA, noun A fish caught in the Mediterranean, generally about 12 or 14 inches long, but sometimes growing to the weight of 60 pounds. It is called also thromis and corvo.
UM'BRAGE, noun [Latin umbra, a shade.]1. A shade; a screen of trees; as the umbrage of woods.2. Shadow; shade; slight appearance.The opinion carries no show of truth nor umbrage...
UMBRA'GEOUS, adjective1. Shading; forming a shade; as umbrageous trees or foliage.2. Shady; shaded; as an umbrageous grotto or garden.Umbrageous grots, and caves of cool recess....
UMBRA'GEOUSNESS, noun Shadiness; as the umbrageousness of a tree.
UM'BRATE, verb transitive [Latin umbro, to shade.] To shade; to shadow. [Little used.]
UM'BRATED, participle passive Shaded; shadowed.
UMBRAT'IC,UMBRAT'ICAL, adjective [Latin umbraticus.]1. Shadowy; typical.2. Keeping in the shade or at home.
UMBRAT'ICAL, a. [L. umbraticus.]1. Shadowy; typical.2. Keeping in the shade or at home.
UM'BRATILE, adjective [Latin umbratilis.]1. Being in the shade.2. Unreal; unsubstantial.3. Being in retirement; secluded; as an umbratile life. [Little used.]
UMBRA'TIOUS, adjective [See Umbrage.] Suspicious; apt to distrust; captious; disposed to take umbrage. [Little used.]
UM'BREL,UMBREL'LA, noun [from Latin umbra, shade.] 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 ...
UMBREL'LA, n. [from L. umbra, shade.] 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 sil...
UMBRIE'RE, noun The visor of a helmet.
UMBROS'ITY, noun [Latin umbrosus.] Shadiness. [Little used.]
UMINPA'IRED, adjective Not impaired; not diminished; not enfeebled by time or injury; as an unimpaired constitution.
UM'PIRAGE, noun [from umpire.]1. The power, right or authority of an umpire to decide.2. The decision of an umpire.
UM'PIRE, noun [Latin imperium, contracted, as in empire.]1. A third person called in to decide a controversy or question submitted to arbitrators, when the arbitrators do not ag...
UN, a prefix or inseparable preposition, un or on, usually un an, is the same word as the Latin in. It is a particle of negation, giving to words to which it is prefixed, a nega...
UNABA'SED, adjective Not abased; not humbled.
UNABASH'ED, adjective Not abashed; not confused with shame, or by modesty.
UNABA'TED, adjective Not abated; not diminished in strength or violence. The fever remains unabated
UNABBRE'VIATED, adjective Not abbreviated; not shortened.
UNABET'TED, adjective Not abetted; not aided.
UNABIL'ITY,UNABJU'RED, adjective Not abjured; not renounced on oath.
UNABJU'RED, a. Not abjured; not renounced on oath.