Chiefly dial. In 5 oumbre, owmbre, 7 vmbre, 9 dial. oumer, owmer, oomer, etc. [ad. OF. umbrer, ombrer (mod.F. ombrer to shade in painting), ad. L. umbrāre (whence also It. ombrare), f. umbra UMBER sb.1] trans. To shade, to protect.

1

c. 1400.  Maundev. (Roxb.), xvii. 78. It will couer and oumbre all his body for þe sonne. Ibid., xxii. 100. It will couer all þe body and owmbre it fra þe sonne.

2

1611.  Cotgr., Ombré, vmbred, or shadowed; (a tearme in Blason).

3

1790.  Grose, Prov. Gloss., Oumert, shaded with trees or buildings.

4

1828.  Craven Gloss. (ed. 2), Oumer, to shadow. Ibid. That birk oumers ’t gait.

5

a. 1867.  in Harland & Wilkinson, Lanc. Folk-Lore, 60. T’ leaves on t’ trees, they owm’ered t’ land, And fadin’ was the summer light.

6

  Hence Umbering ppl. a.

7

1872.  Dixon, Milkin’ Time (E.D.D.). The branches of the owmering yew.

8

1880.  A. B. Todd, August, Poet. Wks. (1906), 209. When winds grew hush’d, and umbering trees were still.

9