n.
- a portion of something, especially money
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Lexicon
noun
(also tumbrel)
- an open cart that tilted backward to empty out its load, in particular one used to convey condemned prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution.
- a two-wheeled covered cart which carried tools or ammunition for an army.
[Attrib. — Eley Williams]
um·bel
/ˈəmbəl/
noun
BOTANY
plural noun: umbels
-
a flower cluster in which stalks of nearly equal length spring from a common center and form a flat or curved surface, characteristic of the parsley family.
adj.
- Excessively submissive or devoted to one’s wife.
[“Portrait d’une Femme” — Ezra Pound]
adjective
1. (especially of the plumage of a bird) marked with sinuous or wavy lines.
2. ARCHAIC worm-eaten.
[H is for Hawk — Helen Macdonald]
adj.
- resembling, associated with, or fond of wine: a vinous smell.
- literary of the reddish color of wine: a wood pigeon with vinous underparts.
[The Waves — Virginia Woolf]