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ˈumbered, ppl. a.
Also 9 umbred.
[f. umber n.3 or v.3 + -ed.]
Stained or painted with umber; made of a dark brown colour; embrowned, darkened.
In some quots. the sense ‘shadowed, darkened by shade’ (cf. umber v.1) is possible.
1599Shakes. Hen. V, iv. Prologue 9 Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames Each Battaile sees the others vmber'd face. 1624Heywood Captives ii. ii. in Bullen O. Pl. IV, Fayre flesh and cleane they bothe appeare And not like gypsies umber'd. 1716Pope Iliad viii. 706 Full fifty guards each flaming pile attend, Whose umber'd arms, by fits, thick flashes send. 1805–6Cary Dante, Inf. iii. 110 Thus go they over through the umber'd wave. 1813Scott Trierm. i. x, Amid whose yawning gulfs the sun Cast umber'd radiance red and dun. 1860O. W. Holmes Elsie V. xi. (1891) 154 The bistred or umbered beauties of mingled blood among whom he had been living. 1877Mallock New Republic v. i. II. 232 A circular domed temple of umbred marble. |