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Clear :: Clear (v. t.) To free from impediment or incumbrance, from defilement, or from anything injurious, useless, or offensive; as, to clear land of trees or brushwood, or from stones; to clear the sight or the voice; to clear one's self from debt; -- often used with of, off, away, or out..

Adumbration :: Adumbration (n.) A faint sketch; an outline; an imperfect portrayal or representation of a thing.

Penumbra :: Penumbra (n.) The shadow cast, in an eclipse, where the light is partly, but not wholly, cut off by the intervening body; the space of partial illumination between the umbra, or perfect shadow, on all sides, and the full light..

Adumbrant :: Adumbrant (a.) Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth..

Unencumber :: Unencumber (v. t.) To free from incumbrance; to disencumber.

Adumbration :: Adumbration (n.) The shadow or outlines of a figure.

Umbrage :: Umbrage (n.) Shadowy resemblance; shadow.

Excrescence :: Excrescence (n.) An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a troublesome superfluity; an incumbrance; as, an excrescence on the body, or on a plant..

Umbra :: Umbra (n.) 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..

Obumbration :: Obumbration (n.) Act of darkening or obscuring.

Umbrae :: Umbrae (pl. ) of Umbr.

Obumbrant :: Obumbrant (a.) Overhanging; as, obumbrant feathers..

Umbra :: Umbra (n.) 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..

Talipot :: Talipot (n.) A beautiful tropical palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera), a native of Ceylon and the Malabar coast. It has a trunk sixty or seventy feet high, bearing a crown of gigantic fan-shaped leaves which are used as umbrellas and as fans in ceremonial processions, and, when cut into strips, as a substitute for writing paper..

Umbriferous :: Umbriferous (a.) Casting or making a shade; umbrageous.

Umbra :: Umbra (n.) The fainter part of a sun spot; -- now more commonly called penumbra.

Adumbrative :: Adumbrative (a.) Faintly representing; typical.

Incumbrancer :: Incumbrancer (n.) One who holds an incumbrance, or some legal claim, lien, or charge on an estate..

Umbrose :: Umbrose (a.) Shady; umbrageous.

Umbrageous :: Umbrageous (a.) Forming or affording a shade; shady; shaded; as, umbrageous trees or foliage..

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