Obs. [Cf. UMBER sb.4 and v.2] Number, multitude.
Modern Kentish dial. umblement ‘number, complement,’ is prob. a survival of this.
1550–3. Decaye Eng., in Supplic. (1871), 96. Where tillage was wont to be, nowe is it stored wyth greate vmberment of shepe, & they that haue great vmberment of shepe, must nedes haue greate store of woll.
