416 
U M B 
U M B 
figured in English Botany, t. 420. The fronds are five or 
six inches high, fiat and branched ; branches dilated, some¬ 
what forked with obtuse angles; terminated and fringed with 
ligulate or strap-shaped segments. The substance is semi- 
pellucid, of a brightish red. Seeds very minute, scattered 
separately, throughout the substance of the frond; which 
distinguishes it from Fucus ciliatus and palmatus. 
5. Ulva lactuca is well known under the name of oyster- 
green. It is thin, pellucid, and of a fine green. 
6. Ulva palmata is the dullesh of the Irish; dills of the 
Scotch; dulls or dulse in Northumberland. Variously cut 
like a hand expanded : it is thin, pellucid, green or reddish. 
Being soaked in fresh water, it is eaten either boiled or dried, 
and in the latter slate has something of a violet flavour. It 
is sold in the streets of Dublin, being dried, and is said 
to kill worms. The poor in the north of Ireland eat it 
boiled. 
7. Ulva incrassata, figured in English Botany, t. 967. Gela¬ 
tinous and slippery, grass-green. Found on Hypnum ri- 
parium, and the stalks of horse-tail in ponds and ditches. 
8. Ulva fistulosa and purpurascens are both figured in Eng¬ 
lish Botany, t. 642 and 641, and are described by Mr. Wood¬ 
ward in the Linmean Transactions, vol.3. 
A sufficient idea of this genus may be obtained from the 
above hints and references. Most of the species are mari¬ 
time plants; but some are found in fresh waters, and a few 
on land. For more complete information, see Woodward in 
Linn. Trans. 3. 46. 
ULVERSTON, an ancient market town of England, in 
the county of Lancaster, and hundred of Lonsdale North, in 
the liberty of Furness. It is pleasantly situated on a de¬ 
clivity towards the south, at the distance of about a mile 
from an arm of the bay of Morecambe, called Leven Sands, 
whence vessels of 250 tons burden come up to the port at 
high water; 18 miles north-north-west of Lancaster, and 267 
north-north-west of London. 
To U'LULATE, v. n. [ululo , Lat.] To howl; to 
scream. Not now in use. Cockeram. —Troops of jackal Is 
for prey violated the graves, by tearing out the dead; all 
the while ululating in offensive noises. Sir T. Herbert. 
ULYMEN, a large village of the Netherlands, in South 
Holland. Population 1800. 
ULYSSES, a post township of the United States, in 
Tompkins county. New York, at the south end of Cayuga 
lake; 14 miles south-east of Ovid. It contains two post vil¬ 
lages, Ithaca and Tremain. 
UMAGO, a small sea-port of Austrian Illyria, on the 
west coast of Istria, with 1200 inhabitants; 57 miles east of 
Venice, and 18 south-south-west of Trieste. Lat. 45.35. N. 
long. 13. 43. E. 
UM AM ARC A, a large lake of Peru, in the province of 
Omasuyos, divided from that of Titicaca, by a peninsula, 
leaving only a small strait. 
UMAN, a small town in the west of European Russia, in 
the government of Kiev, with 2600 inhabitants ; 125 miles 
south-south-west of Kiev. 
UMAYA, a large and abundant river of Mexico, in the 
province of Culiacan, which enters the Pacific ocean at the 
port of Navitos. 
UMBAA, a village of Abyssinia ; 100 miles south-south¬ 
west of Gondar. 
UMBAGOG, a lake of the United States, in New Hamp¬ 
shire and Maine. It is 18 miles long, and where widest, 10 
broad. Lat. 44. 42. N. 
U'MBEL, s. [umbelle , Fr.; umbella, Lat.] In Botany, 
the extremity of a stalk or branch divided into several 
pedicles or rays, beginning from the same point, and opening 
so as to form an inverted cone. Diet. —The umbel, for 
the most part, had but two spokes of flowers. Ray. 
U'MBELLATED, adj. In Botany, is said of flowers 
when many of them grow together in umbels. Diet. 
UMBELLIFEROUS, adj. [i umbel and fero, Lat.] In 
Botany, being a plant that bears many flowers, growing 
upon many footstalks, proceeding from the same centre; 
and chiefly appropriated to such plants whose flowers are 
composed of five leaves, as fennel and parsnip. Diet .—I 
observed, creeping upon the ground, a small umbelliferous 
plant. Ray. 
U'MBER, s. [from the ancient Umbria, or Ombria, 
in Italy; whence the earth which produces the colour was 
first obtained.] Umber is a sad colour; which grind with 
gum-water, and lighten it with a little ceruse, and a shive of 
saffron. Peacham. 
I’ll put myself in poor and mean attire. 
And with a kind of umber smirch my face, Shakspeare. 
A fish, [ thymallus , Lat.] The umber and grayling differ 
as the herring and pilcher do : but though they may do so 
in other nations, those in England differ nothing but in their 
names. Walton. 
To U'MBER, v. a. To colour with umber; to shade; 
to darken. Mr. Malone, on the following passage from 
Shakspeare, has observed, that umber was used in the stage- 
exhibitions of the poet’s time ; and cites, from a manuscript 
play in his possession, a direction to “ umber the face.” 
He might have found the same expression in Beaumont and 
Fletcher. Dr. Johnson has considered the word only'as an 
adjective. 
From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night. 
Fire answers fire; and through their paly flames 
Each battle sees the other’s umber'd face. Shakspeare, 
UMBER, a town of Hindostan, province of Arungabad, 
belonging to the Nizam. Lat. 19 38. N. long. 76. 2. E. 
UMBERSTON CREEK, a river of the United States, in 
Virginia, which runs into the Potomac. Lat. 39. 35. N. 
long. 79. 6. W. 
UMBI'LICAL, adj. [umbilicale, Fr., from umbilicus, 
Lat.] Belonging to the navel.—Birds are nourished by 
umbilical veins, and the navel is manifest a day or two after 
exclusion. Brown. 
UMBl'LIC, s. [umbilicus, Lat.] The navel; the 
centre. Not in use. Bullokar. —The alcoran further tells 
you what and where hell is, and what is paradise. Hell is 
the umbilic of the world, circled with a thick wall of 
adamant, &c. Sir T. Herbert. 
U'MBLES, s. [umbles, Fr.] A deer’s entrails. Diet. 
U'MBO, s. [Lat.] The pointed boss, or prominent part 
of a buckler. 
Thy words together ty’d in small hanks, 
Close as the Macedonian phalanx ; 
Or like the umbo of the Romans, 
Which fiercest foes could break by no means. Swift. 
UMBRA, a river of America, which runs into the Wa¬ 
bash. Lat. 38. 38. N. long. 88. 12. W. 
UMBRA, a small river of Peru, in the province of Canta, 
which runs east, and enters the Pari. 
U'MBRAGE, s. [ ombrage, Fr.] Shade ; screen of 
trees. 
O, might I here 
In solitude live savage ; in some glade 
Obscur’d, where highest woods, impenetrable 
To star, or sun-light, spread their umbrage broad, 
And brown as evening ! Milton. 
Shadow; appearance.—The rest are umbrages quickly 
dispelled ; the astrologer subjects liberty to the motions of 
heaven. Bramhall. —Reseutment.—Although he went on 
with the war, yet it should be but with his sword in his 
hand, to bend the stiffness of the other party to accept of 
peace: and so the king should take no umbrage of his 
arming and prosecution. Bacon. 
UMBRA'GEOUS, adj. [ombragieux, Fr.] Shady; 
yielding shade.— Umbrageous grots and caves of cool 
recess. Milton. —Obscure; not to be perceived. Obsolete. 
—The present constitution of the court is very ombraseous. 
Wotton. 
UMBRAGEOUSNESS, s. Shadiness.—The exceeding 
umbrageousness 
