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Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To represent faintly or imperfectly; to adumbrate; hence, to represent typically..

Excrescence :: Excrescence (n.) An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a troublesome superfluity; an incumbrance; as, an excrescence on the body, or on a plant..

Encumberment :: Encumberment (n.) Encumbrance.

Adumbrate :: Adumbrate (v. t.) To overshadow; to shade.

Encumbrance :: Encumbrance (n.) That which encumbers; a burden which impedes action, or renders it difficult and laborious; a clog; an impediment. See Incumbrance..

Incumbrancer :: Incumbrancer (n.) One who holds an incumbrance, or some legal claim, lien, or charge on an estate..

Umbrose :: Umbrose (a.) Shady; umbrageous.

Umbrage :: Umbrage (n.) Shadowy resemblance; shadow.

Umbra :: Umbra (n.) The conical shadow projected from a planet or satellite, on the side opposite to the sun, within which a spectator could see no portion of the sun's disk; -- used in contradistinction from penumbra. See Penumbra..

Ostracism :: Ostracism (n.) Banishment by popular vote, -- a means adopted at Athens to rid the city of a person whose talent and influence gave umbrage..

Umbraculiferous :: Umbraculiferous (a.) Bearing something like an open umbrella.

Shadowing :: Shadowing (n.) A faint representation; an adumbration.

Umbratious :: Umbratious (a.) Suspicious; captious; disposed to take umbrage.

Disencumber :: Disencumber (v. t.) To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden..

Obumbrant :: Obumbrant (a.) Overhanging; as, obumbrant feathers..

Obumbration :: Obumbration (n.) Act of darkening or obscuring.

Unclog :: Unclog (v. t.) To disencumber of a clog, or of difficulties and obstructions; to free from encumbrances; to set at liberty..

Encumbrance :: Encumbrance (n.) Same as Incumbrance.

Umbratical :: Umbratical (a.) Of or pertaining to the shade or darkness; shadowy; unreal; secluded; retired.

Umbrae :: Umbrae (pl. ) of Umbr.

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