Umber

Definition of umber:

part of speech: adjective

BROWNISH.

part of speech: noun

A rich brown pigment.

part of speech: noun

A brown pigment.

part of speech: noun

A brown earth, used as coloring matter.

part of speech: adjective

Of an olive- brown color; dark brown; dusky.

Usage examples for umber:

• The sleek, greenish current ate at the roots of lofty bluffs, striped by bands of umber and orange, and topped with out- croppings of rock as though a vanished race had crowned them with now crumbling fortresses. "The Emigrant Trail", Geraldine Bonner.

• Inside were old unpainted desks,- unpainted, but browned with the umber of human contact,- and hacked by innumerable jack- knives. "The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.", Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist).