▪ I. umbre
(ˈʌmbə(r))
Also umber.
[ad. L. umbra or F. ombre shade, shadow, after mod.L. umbretta, F. ombrette, Brisson's name for the bird.]
An African bird (Scopus umbretta) with deep-brown plumage; the hammerhead or African crow. (Cf. umbrette.)
| 1773 Pennant Gen. Birds 44 Umbre. Bill, strong, thick, strait, compressed, the upper mandible composed of several pieces. 1785 Latham Gen. Synop. Birds III. i. 30 Tufted Umbre... Size of a Crow... The bill is three inches and a half in length. 1819 Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. XI. ii. 636 Crested Umbre, with the whole body fuscous. 1848 Maunder's Treas. Nat. Hist. 716/1 The Crested Umbre (Scopus umbretta)..is..of an umber colour, and the male is crested. 1890 Sat. Rev. 1 Feb. 139/2 The umbre..feeds upon fish and frogs, worms, snails, and insects. |
▪ II. umbre
obs. variant of ombre, umber n.