UM'BEL, noun [Latin umbella, a screen or fan.]
In botany, a particular mode of inflorescence or flowering, which consists of a number of flower-stalks or rays, nearly equal in length, spreading from a common center, their summits forming a level, convex, or even globose surface, more rarely a concave one, as in the carrot. it is simple or compound; in the latter, each peduncle bears another little umbel umbellet or umbellicle.
Umbel is sometimes called a rundle, from its roundness.
UM'BELLAR, adjective Pertaining to an umbel; having the form of an umbel.
UM'BELLATE,
UM'BELLATED, adjective Bearing umbels; consisting of an umbel; growing on an umbel; as umbellate plants or flowers.
UM'BELLET,
UMBEL'LICLE, noun A little or partial umbel.
UMBELLIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin umbella and fero, to bear.]
Producing the inflorescence called an umbel; bearing umbels; as umbelliferous plants.
UM'BER, noun In natural history, an ore of iron, a fossil of a brown, yellowish, or blackish brown color, so called from Ombria in Italy, where it was first obtained. It is used in painting. A specimen from Cyprus afforded, of a hundred parts, 48 parts of oxyd of iron, 20 of oxyd of manganese, the remainder silex, alumin and water.
UM'BER, noun A fowl of Africa, called the African crow.
The Scopus umbretta, a fowl of the grallic order, inhabiting Africa.
UM'BER, noun A fish of the truttaceous kind, called the grayling, or thymallus; a fresh water fish of a fine taste.
UM'BER, verb transitive To color with umber; to shade or darken.
UM'BERED, adjective [Latin umbra, a shade.]
1. Shaded; clouded.
2. [from umber.] Painted with umber.
UMBIL'IC, noun [infra.] The navel; the center.
UMBIL'ICAL, adjective [Latin umbilicus, the navel.] Pertaining to the navel; as umbilical vessels; umbilical region.
Umbilical points, in mathematics, the same as foci.
Umbilical vessels, in vegetables, are the small vessels which pass from the heart of the seed into the side seed-lobes, and are supposed to imbibe the saccharine, farinaceous or oily matter which is to support the new vegetable in its germination and infant growth.
UMBIL'ICATE,
UMBIL'ICATED, adjective Navel-shaped; formed in the middle like a navel; as a flower, fruit, or leaf.
UMBIL'ICATED, a. Navel-shaped; formed in the middle like a navel; as a flower, fruit, or leaf.
UM'BLES, noun The entrails of a deer.
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 yellowish or greenish yellow.
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 of reason on its side. [See Shadow.]
3. Suspicion of injury; offense; resentment. The court of France took umbrage at the conduct of spain.
UMBRA'GEOUS, adjective
1. 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.
3. Obscure.
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 formed of silk, cotton or other cloth extended on strips of elastic whalebone, inserted in or fastened to a rod or stick. [See Parasol.]
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 silk, cotton or other cloth extended on strips of elastic whalebone, inserted in or fastened to a rod or stick. [See Parasol.]
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 agree in opinion.
2. A person to whose sole decision a controversy or question between parties is referred. Thus the emperor of Russia was constituted umpire between Great Britain and the United States, to decide the controversy respecting the slaves carried from the states by the British troops.
UM'PIRE, verb transitive To arbitrate; to decide as umpire; to settle, as a dispute. [Little used.]