Umber

  • 11Umber — Umber, Bastard vom europäischen Mufflon mit dem Hausschaf; s. Schaf, S. 672 …

    Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • 12Umber — Umber, Umbererde, s. Umbra …

    Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • 13Umber — Umber, S. Umbra …

    Grammatisch-kritisches Wörterbuch der Hochdeutschen Mundart

  • 14Umber — Variante de Humbert (voir ce nom) …

    Noms de famille

  • 15umber — /um beuhr/, n. 1. an earth consisting chiefly of a hydrated oxide of iron and some oxide of manganese, used in its natural state as a brown pigment (raw umber) or, after heating, as a reddish brown pigment (burnt umber). 2. the color of such a… …

    Universalium

  • 16UMBER — I. UMBER apud Silium Ital. l. 3. v. 295. aut exigit Umber Nare sagax a colle feras Et Gratium, Cynegeticô, v. 171. Et fuigit adverses idem quos repperit hostes Umber etc. canis venaticus, e sagacibus est, quales Umbria provinc. Italiae gignit… …

    Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

  • 17umber — I. noun Etymology: probably from obsolete English, shade, color, from Middle English ombre, umbre shade, shadow, from Anglo French, from Latin umbra more at umbrage Date: 1568 1. a brown earth that is darker in color than ocher and sienna because …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 18umber — um•ber [[t]ˈʌm bər[/t]] n. 1) mir chem. a brown earth, largely oxides of iron and manganese, used as a pigment 2) fia the color of such a pigment; dark dusky brown or dark reddish brown 3) ich the European grayling Thymallus thymallus[/ex] 4) of… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 19umber — /ˈʌmbə / (say umbuh) noun 1. an earth consisting chiefly of a hydrated oxide of iron and some oxide of manganese, used in its natural state (raw umber) as a brown pigment, or after heating (burnt umber) as a reddish brown pigment. 2. the colour… …

  • 20umber — [[t]ʌ̱mbə(r)[/t]] COLOUR Umber is used to describe things that are yellowish or reddish brown in colour. ...umber paint …

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