*umber*

n. A number that precedes another. [ R. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. t. [ Pref. be- + scumber, scummer. ] To discharge ordure or dung upon. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the mailing address to which answers to a newspaper ad can be sent. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Named from the estate of the Duke of Newcastle. ] (Zool.) A kind of field spaniel, with short legs and stout body, which, unlike other spaniels, hunts silently. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. cucumer, cocumber, cucumber, fr. L. cucmis, gen.cucumeris; cf. OF. cocombre, F. concombre. ] (Bot.) A creeping plant, and its fruit, of several species of the genus Cucumis, esp. Cucumis sativus, the unripe fruit of which is eaten either fresh or picked. Also, similar plants or fruits of several other genera. See below. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bitter cucumber (Bot.), the Citrullus Colocynthis syn. Cucumis Colocynthis. See Colocynth. --
Cucumber beetle. (Zool.) (a) A small, black flea-beetle (Crepidodera cucumeris), which destroys the leaves of cucumber, squash, and melon vines. (b) The squash beetle. --
Cucumber tree. (a) A large ornamental or shade tree of the genus Magnolia (Magnolia acuminata), so called from a slight resemblance of its young fruit to a small cucumber. (b) An East Indian plant (Averrhoa Bilimbi) which produces the fruit known as bilimbi. --
Jamaica cucumber,
Jerusalem cucumber, the prickly-fruited gherkin (Cucumis Anguria). --
Snake cucumber, a species (Cucumis flexuosus) remarkable for its long, curiously-shaped fruit. --
Squirting cucumber, a plant (Ecbalium Elaterium) whose small oval fruit separates from the footstalk when ripe and expels its seeds and juice with considerable force through the opening thus made. See Elaterium. --
Star cucumber, a climbing weed (Sicyos angulatus) with prickly fruit. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cumbered p. pr. & vb. n. Cumbering. ] [ OE. combren, cumbren, OF. combrer to hinder, from LL. cumbrus a heap, fr. L. cumulus; cf. Skr. &unr_;&unr_; to increase, grow strong. Cf. Cumulate. ] To rest upon as a troublesome or useless weight or load; to be burdensome or oppressive to; to hinder or embarrass in attaining an object, to obstruct or occupy uselessly; to embarrass; to trouble. [ 1913 Webster ]

Why asks he what avails him not in fight,
And would but cumber and retard his flight? Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Martha was cumbered about much serving. Luke x. 40. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground? Luke xiii. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

The multiplying variety of arguments, especially frivolous ones, . . . but cumbers the memory. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. encombre hindrance, impediment. See Cuber, v. ] Trouble; embarrassment; distress. [ Obs. ] [ Written also comber. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A place of much distraction and cumber. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sage counsel in cumber. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. a tributary of the Ohio River.
Syn. -- . [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; embarrassing; vexatious; cumbrous. [ 1913 Webster ]

To perform a cumbersome obedience. Sir. P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not easily managed; as, a cumbersome contrivance or machine. [ 1913 Webster ]

He holds them in utter contempt, as lumbering, cumbersome, circuitous. I. Taylor.

-- Cum"ber*some*ly, adv. -- Cum"ber*some*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. dis- + cumber: cf. OF. descombrer. ] To free from that which cumbers or impedes; to disencumber. [ Archaic ] Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disencumbered p. pr. & vb. n. Disencumbering. ] [ Pref. dis- + encumber: cf. F. désencombrer. ] To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden. Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have disencumbered myself from rhyme. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Encumbered p. pr. & vb. n. Encumbering. ] [ F. encombrer; pref. en- (L. in) + OF. combrer to hinder. See Cumber, and cf. Incumber. ] [ Written also incumber. ] 1. To impede the motion or action of, as with a burden; to retard with something superfluous; to weigh down; to obstruct or embarrass; as, his movements were encumbered by his mantle; his mind is encumbered with useless learning. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not encumbered with any notable inconvenience. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To load with debts, or other legal claims; as, to encumber an estate with mortgages.

Syn. -- To load; clog; oppress; overload; embarrass; perplex; hinder; retard; obstruct; check; block. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. encombrement. ] Encumbrance. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Incumbered p. pr. & vb. n. Incumbering. ] See Encumber. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To move heavily, as if burdened. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ Cf. dial. Sw. lomra to resound. ] To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. fr. Lombard, the Lombards being the money lenders and pawnbrokers of the Middle Ages. A lumber room was, according to Trench, originally a Lombard room, or room where the Lombard pawnbroker stored his pledges. See Lombard. ] 1. A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

They put all the little plate they had in the lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came. Lady Murray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Lumber kiln, a room in which timber or lumber is dried by artificial heat. [ U.S. ] --
Lumber room, a room in which unused furniture or other lumber is kept. [ U.S. ] --
Lumber wagon, a heavy rough wagon, without springs, used for general farmwork, etc. --
dimensional lumber, lumber, usually of pine, which is sold as beams or planks having a specified nominal cross-section, usually in inches, such a two-by-four, two-by-six, four-by-four, etc. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Lumbered p. pr. & vb. n. Lumbering. ] 1. To heap together in disorder. “ Stuff lumbered together.” Rymer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One employed in lumbering, cutting, and getting logs from the forest for lumber; a lumberman. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Lumberers have a notion that he (the woodpecker) is harmful to timber. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The business of cutting or getting timber or logs from the forest for lumber. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a person who works at lumbering; a lumberman.
Syn. -- lumberman, timberman. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. (Zool.) The grey jay. [ Canadian ] [ PJC ]

n.; pl. Lumbermen One who is engaged in lumbering as a business or employment. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

. Maine; -- a nickname. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (aeronautics) The ratio of the speed of a moving body to the speed of sound. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To number wrongly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The sum of the number of neutrons and protons in an atomic nucleus. Syn. -- mass number. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ OE. nombre, F. nombre, L. numerus; akin to Gr. no`mos that which is dealt out, fr. ne`mein to deal out, distribute. See Numb, Nomad, and cf. Numerate, Numero, Numerous. ] 1. That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection of individuals; an assemblage made up of distinct things expressible by figures. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A collection of many individuals; a numerous assemblage; a multitude; many. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ladies are always of great use to the party they espouse, and never fail to win over numbers. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A numeral; a word or character denoting a number; as, to put a number on a door. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Numerousness; multitude. [ 1913 Webster ]

Number itself importeth not much in armies where the people are of weak courage. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The state or quality of being numerable or countable. [ 1913 Webster ]

Of whom came nations, tribes, people, and kindreds out of number. 2 Esdras iii. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Quantity, regarded as made up of an aggregate of separate things. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. That which is regulated by count; poetic measure, as divisions of time or number of syllables; hence, poetry, verse; -- chiefly used in the plural. [ 1913 Webster ]

I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Gram.) The distinction of objects, as one, or more than one (in some languages, as one, or two, or more than two), expressed (usually) by a difference in the form of a word; thus, the singular number and the plural number are the names of the forms of a word indicating the objects denoted or referred to by the word as one, or as more than one. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. (Math.) The measure of the relation between quantities or things of the same kind; that abstract species of quantity which is capable of being expressed by figures; numerical value. [ 1913 Webster ]

Abstract number,
Abundant number,
Cardinal number, etc. See under Abstract, Abundant, etc. --
In numbers, in numbered parts; as, a book published in numbers. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Numbered p. pr & vb. n. Numbering. ] [ OE. nombren, noumbren, F. nombrer, fr. L. numerare, numeratum. See Number, n. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To count; to reckon; to ascertain the units of; to enumerate. [ 1913 Webster ]

If a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Gen. xiii. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To reckon as one of a collection or multitude. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was numbered with the transgressors. Is. liii. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To give or apply a number or numbers to; to assign the place of in a series by order of number; to designate the place of by a number or numeral; as, to number the houses in a street, or the apartments in a building. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To amount; to equal in number; to contain; to consist of; as, the army numbers fifty thousand. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy tears can not number the dead. Campbell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Numbering machine, a machine for printing consecutive numbers, as on railway tickets, bank bills, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To count; enumerate; calculate; tell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who numbers. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Numerous. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Innumerable; countless. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Numerous. [ Obs. ] Drant. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. pl. of Number. The fourth book of the Pentateuch, containing the census of the Hebrews. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To exceed in number; as, the garrison was badly outnumbered by the attacking forces. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. plombier. See Plumb. ] One who works in lead; esp., one who furnishes, fits, and repairs lead pipes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: Any worker who installs or repairs piping and related equipment for conveyance of water, gas, or drainage into or out of buildings, or within buildings to fixtures or equipment using water. The type of material used for the conduits varies with the application, and may be may be of lead, iron, copper, glass, palstic, or other material. [ PJC ]

A pillow block. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. plomberie. ] 1. The business of a plumber. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A place where plumbing is carried on; lead works. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Cf. Discumber. ] To void excrement. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Dung. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) Any large holothurian, especially one of those belonging to the genus Pentacta, or Cucumaria, as the common American and European species. (Pentacta frondosa). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Slumbered p. pr. & vb. n. Slumbering. ] [ OE. slombren, slumberen, slumeren, AS. slumerian, fr. sluma slumber; akin to D. sluimeren to slumber, MHG. slummern, slumen, G. schlummern, Dan. slumre, Sw. slumra, Goth. slawan to be silent. ] 1. To sleep; especially, to sleep lightly; to doze. Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. Ps. cxxi. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness, or inactivity. “Why slumbers Pope?” Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To lay to sleep. [ R. ] Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To stun; to stupefy. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Sleep; especially, light sleep; sleep that is not deep or sound; repose. [ 1913 Webster ]

He at last fell into a slumber, and thence into a fast sleep, which detained him in that place until it was almost night. Bunyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fast asleep? It is no matter;
Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rest to my soul, and slumber to my eyes. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who slumbers; a sleeper. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a slumbering manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without slumber; sleepless. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Inviting slumber; soporiferous. “Pensive in the slumberous shade.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Being in the repose of slumber; sleepy; drowsy. [ 1913 Webster ]

His quiet and almost slumberous countenance. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Sleepy. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ombre ocherous ore of iron, terre d'ombre, It. terra d'ombra, literally, earth of shadow or shade, L. umbra shadow, shade. Cf. Umber, 3 & 4, Umbrage. ] 1. (Paint.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An umbrere. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. [ F. ombre, umbre, L. umbra. ] (Zool.) See Grayling, 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. [ Cf. NL. scopus umbretta, F. ombrette; probably fr. L. umbra shade, in allusion to its dark brown color. See Umber a pigment. ] (Zool.) An African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the storks and herons. It is dull dusky brown, and has a large occipital crest. Called also umbrette, umbre, and umber bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

Burnt umber (Paint.), a pigment made by burning raw umber, which is changed by this process from an olive brown to a bright reddish brown. --
Cologne umber, or
German umber, a brown pigment obtained from lignite. See Cologne earth. [ 1913 Webster ]