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Umbra   /ˈəmbrə/   Listen
Umbra

noun
(pl. umbrae)
1.
A region of complete shadow resulting from total obstruction of light.





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"Umbra" Quotes from Famous Books



... dracones alis instructi. Medea non omittendam tantam occasionem arbitrata currum ascendit, itaque per aera vecta incolumis ad urbem Athenas pervenit. Iason ipse brevi tempore miro modo occisus est. Accidit sive casu sive consilio deorum ut sub umbra navis suae, quae in litus subducta erat, dormiret. Mox navis, quae adhuc erecta steterat, in eam partem ubi Iason iacebat ...
— Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles - A First Latin Reader • John Kirtland, ed.
... an unrivalled pen in this way;" and to whom I owe many obligations of a higher kind in the literary department—but whose modesty, albeit he was born on the banks of the Liffey, will not allow me to make the reader acquainted with his name. Therefore, "STAT NOMINIS UMBRA:" viz. ——!] ...
— Bibliomania; or Book-Madness - A Bibliographical Romance • Thomas Frognall Dibdin
... narrow red stripe along the top and the bottom edges; centered is a large white disk bearing the coat of arms; the coat of arms features a shield flanked by two workers in front of a mahogany tree with the related motto SUB UMBRA FLOREO (I Flourish in the Shade) on a scroll at the bottom, all encircled by ...
— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... umbra. A Mighty Lion, ruler of the woods, Of wondrous strength and great proportion, With hideous noise scaring the trembling trees, With yelling clamors shaking all the earth, Traverst the groves, and ...
— 2. Mucedorus • William Shakespeare [Apocrypha]
... pares: alter vergentibus annis In senium, longoque togae tranquillior usu. Dedidicit jam pace ducem;... Nec reparare novas vires, multumque priori Credere fortunae: stat magni nominis umbra.[1] ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VII. (of 12) • Edmund Burke
... know not whether he does not allude to a curious book, De Umbra, by Wowerus, which, having told the qualities of shade, concludes with a poem, in which are ...
— Lives of the Poets, Vol. 1 • Samuel Johnson


Words linked to "Umbra" :   shadow


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