Emily Dickinson Lexicon

UL-TRA-MON'TANE, a. [Fr. from L. ultra and montanus, from mons, mountain.]

Being beyond the mountain. Thus France, with regard to Italy, is an ultramontane country. Poussin is the only ultramontane painter whom the Italians seem to envy. Cyc.

UL-TRA-MON'TANE, n.

A foreigner; one who resides beyond the mountain.

UL-TRA-MONT'A-NISM, n.

The doctrines of ultramontanists.

UL-TRA-MONT'A-NIST, n.

One who lives north or west; of the mountains of Italy, and attempts to exalt the authority of the Roman church and the pope, above that of temporal sovereigns. Robinson.

UL-TRA-MUN'DANE, a. [L. ultra and mundus, world.]

Being beyond the world, or beyond the limits of our system.

UL-TRO'NE-OUS, a. [L ultro, of one's own accord.]

Spontaneous; voluntary. [Not used.]

UL'U-LATE, v.i. [L. udulo, to howl.]

To howl, as a dog or wolf. Herbert.

UL-U-LA'TION, n.

A howling, as of the wolf or dog.

UM'BEL, n. [L. 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 umbellule. Cyc. Martyn. Umbel is sometimes called a rundle, from its roundness.

UM'BEL-LAR, a.

Pertaining to an umbel; having the form of an umbel.

UM'BEL-LATE, or UM'BEL-LA-TED, a.

Bearing umbels; consisting of an umbel; growing on an umbel; as, umbellate plants or flowers.

UM'BEL-LET, or UM'BEL-LULE, n.

A little or partial umbel. Martyn.

UM-BEL'LIF-ER, n. [L. umbella and fero.]

In botany, a plant producing an umbel. Lindley.

UM-BEL-LIF'ER-OUS, a. [L. umbella and fero, to bear.]

Producing the inflorescence called an umbel; bearing umbels; as, umbelliferous plants.

UM'BER, n.

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. Cyc.

UM'BER, n.

A fowl of Africa, called the African crow. The Scopus umbretta, a fowl of the grallic order, inhabiting Africa. Cyc.

UM'BER, n.

A fish of the salmon family, called the grayling, or Thymallus vulgaris, a fresh water lash of a fine taste. Cyc.

UM'BER, v.t.

To color with umber; to shade or darken. Shak.

UM'BER-ED, a. [L. umbra, a shade.]

1. Shaded; clouded. Shak.
2. [from umber.] Painted with umber.

UM-BIL'IC, or UM-BIL'IC-AL, a. [L. 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. Cyc. Darwin.

UM-BIL'IC, n. [infra.]

The navel; the center. Herbert.

UM-BIL'IC, n.

In conchology, a conical depression at the base of a unvivalve shell.

UM-BIL'IC-ATE,

or UM-BIL'IC-A-TED a. Navel-shaped; formed in the middle like a navel; as a flower, fruit, or leaf. Martyn. Cyc.

UM'BLES, n. [Fr.]

Tho entrails of a deer. Dict.

UM'BO, n. [L.]

The boss or protuberant part of a shield. Cyc. Swift.