Vocabulary : Umber to Umbles

Umber : 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. ;; See Grayling, 1. ;; 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. ;; Of or pertaining to umber; resembling umber; olive-brown; dark brown; dark; dusky. ;; To color with umber; to shade or darken; as, to umber over one's face.
Umbery : Of or pertaining to umber; like umber; as, umbery gold.
Umbilic : The navel; the center. ;; An umbilicus. See Umbilicus, 5 (b). ;; See Umbilical, 1.
Umbilical : Of or pertaining to an umbilicus, or umbilical cord; umbilic. ;; Pertaining to the center; central.
Umbilicate : Alt. of Umbilicated

Umbilicated : Depressed in the middle, like a navel, as a flower, fruit, or leaf; navel-shaped; having an umbilicus; as, an umbilicated smallpox vesicle. ;; Supported by a stalk at the central point.
Umbilication : A slight, navel-like depression, or dimpling, of the center of a rounded body; as, the umbilication of a smallpox vesicle; also, the condition of being umbilicated.
Umbilicus : The depression, or mark, in the median line of the abdomen, which indicates the point where the umbilical cord separated from the fetus; the navel. ;; An ornamented or painted ball or boss fastened at each end of the stick on which manuscripts were rolled. ;; The hilum. ;; A depression or opening in the center of the base of many spiral shells. ;; Either one of the two apertures in the calamus of a feather. ;; One of foci of an ellipse, or other curve. ;; A point of a surface at which the curvatures of the normal sections are all equal to each other. A sphere may be osculatory to the surface in every direction at an umbilicus. Called also umbilic.
Umble pie : A pie made of umbles. See To eat humble pie, under Humble.
Umbles : The entrails and coarser parts of a deer; hence, sometimes, entrails, in general.

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