Also 7 vmbre, 7–8 umbre. [f. UMBER sb.3] trans. To stain or paint with umber; to make of a dark brown color.
1610. B. Jonson, Alch., V. v. You … told her, you had tane the paines To dye your beard, and vmbre o’er your face.
1615. Markham, Pleas. Princes, ii. (1635), 7. He which is a master in this Art will Vmber, and darken the Rod.
1623. Middleton & Rowley, Sp. Gipsy, II. i. No red-ochre rascals umbered with soot and bacon as the English gipsies are.
1735. Dict. Polygraph., I. Q 5. After the faces have been umbred, shadow the hair.
1813. Hogg, Queen’s Wake, I. Young Kennedy, i. When the gusts of October had rifled the thorn, Had dappled the woodland, and umbered the plain.
