Definition of umber

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Umber (n.) A brown or reddish pigment used in both oil and water colors, obtained from certain natural clays variously colored by the oxides of iron and manganese. It is commonly heated or burned before being used, and is then called burnt umber; when not heated, it is called raw umber. See Burnt umber, below..

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Bow :: Bow (v. t.) An appliance consisting of an elastic rod, with a number of horse hairs stretched from end to end of it, used in playing on a stringed instrument..
Northumbrian :: Northumbrian (a.) Of or pertaining to Northumberland in England.
Denary :: Denary (n.) The number ten; a division into ten.
Sporocyst :: Sporocyst (n.) An asexual zooid, usually forming one of a series of larval forms in the agamic reproduction of various trematodes and other parasitic worms. The sporocyst generally develops from an egg, but in its turn produces other larvae by internal budding, or by the subdivision of a part or all of its contents into a number of minute germs. See Redia..
Sing :: Sing (v. t.) To celebrate is song; to give praises to in verse; to relate or rehearse in numbers, verse, or poetry..
Unsymmetrical :: Unsymmetrical (a.) Not symmetrical; being without symmetry, as the parts of a flower when similar parts are of different size and shape, or when the parts of successive circles differ in number. See Symmetry..
Touch-me-not :: Touch-me-not (n.) Squirting cucumber. See under Cucumber.
Slumber :: Slumber (v. t.) To stun; to stupefy.
Either :: Either (a. & pron.) Each of two; the one and the other; both; -- formerly, also, each of any number..
Perpetuity :: Perpetuity (n.) The number of years' purchase to be given for an annuity to continue forever.
Click :: Click (n.) A kind of articulation used by the natives of Southern Africa, consisting in a sudden withdrawal of the end or some other portion of the tongue from a part of the mouth with which it is in contact, whereby a sharp, clicking sound is produced. The sounds are four in number, and are called cerebral, palatal, dental, and lateral clicks or clucks, the latter being the noise ordinarily used in urging a horse forward..
Trichina :: Trichina (n.) A small, slender nematoid worm (Trichina spiralis) which, in the larval state, is parasitic, often in immense numbers, in the voluntary muscles of man, the hog, and many other animals. When insufficiently cooked meat containing the larvae is swallowed by man, they are liberated and rapidly become adult, pair, and the ovoviviparous females produce in a short time large numbers of young which find their way into the muscles, either directly, or indirectly by means of the blood. Their
Decimal :: Decimal (n.) A number expressed in the scale of tens; specifically, and almost exclusively, used as synonymous with a decimal fraction..
Rest :: Rest (n.) Sleep; slumber; hence, poetically, death..
Sloom :: Sloom (n.) Slumber.
One :: One (n.) A single unit; as, one is the base of all numbers..
Septenary :: Septenary (a.) Consisting of, or relating to, seven; as, a septenary number..
Each :: Each (a. / a. pron.) Every one of the two or more individuals composing a number of objects, considered separately from the rest. It is used either with or without a following noun; as, each of you or each one of you..
Team :: Team (v. t.) To convey or haul with a team; as, to team lumber..
Majority :: Majority (n.) The amount or number by which one aggregate exceeds all other aggregates with which it is contrasted; especially, the number by which the votes for a successful candidate exceed those for all other candidates; as, he is elected by a majority of five hundred votes. See Plurality..
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