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noun

Umber n.

(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.

An umbrere. (Obs.)

(Zool.) See Grayling, 1.

(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.

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.

verb

Umber v. t. To color with umber; to shade or darken; as, to umber over one's face.

adjective

Umber adj. Of or pertaining to umber; resembling umber; olive-brown; dark brown; dark; dusky. "Their harps are of the umber shade That hides the blush of waking day."

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Etymology of 'Umber'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Umber" Quotes from Famous Books

... or NORNE. Whole body covered with spear shaped scales; head shining black; the ground colours of the back rich umber, almost black; scuta 161, of a dirty red orange; fangs two on each side of the upper jaw near the lios, small, and bent ...

— Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central • Edward John Eyre

... dashed over its pebbly bed, and recalling times, when, free from all care, he had strayed by its wood-fringed banks, to listen to the pleasant sound of running waters, and watch the shining pebbles beneath them, and the swift trout and dainty umber glancing past. ...

— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth

... were already gathered. Among them I could not but notice a tall, spare, broad-shouldered young fellow dressed in a quiet business suit, somewhat wrinkled, whose square, strong, clean-cut face and muscular hands were tanned by the weather to a dark umber-brown. In another moment I looked down ...

— Blazed Trail Stories - and Stories of the Wild Life • Stewart Edward White

... dirty hands. Dozens of empty bottles clinked together in corners to the rolling of the ship. One of the doctor's medical books lay open on the table, half of the leaves gutted out, I suppose, for pipelights. In the midst of all this the lamp still cast a smoky glow, obscure and brown as umber. ...

— Treasure Island • Robert Louis Stevenson

... artist, over a cup of chocolate, has lovely dreams, of burnt umber hue, and despises the neglected treasures left him by the Moors, while he seeks gold in—castles in ...

— Continental Monthly, Vol. II. July, 1862. No. 1. • Various

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