ulwan (ulwan)

[E. Ind.] Plain cloth of the shawl-wool of cashmere, such as is seen in the plain center of embroidered India shawls. ulyie, ulzie (ül'yē), n. Scotch forms of oil. Scott, Pirate, xvii. um-. [ IMG:content-1208.jpg:[blocks in formation] To speke so embe nozt. Early English Poems and Lives of Saints (ed. Furnivall), [xix. 164. [They] hade meruell full mekull of that mayne place, Of the walles that wroght were wondurly faire, With high toures full torr it all the toun vmbe. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 4956. umbecast (um'be-kast), v. i. To cast about; make a circuit. The hound came fast after, and umbecast about, for she had lost the perfect fewt of the hind. Sir T. Malory , Morte d'Arthur, III. cxxiv. umbel (um'bel), n. [F. ombelle = Sp. um bel a = Pg. It. umbella , umbella , an umbel, umbella , a sunshade, parasol, umbrella, dim. of umbra , a shade, shadow: see umbra .] 1. An inflorescence consisting of a number of flowers talks or pedicels, nearly equal in length, spreading from a common center, their summits forming a level, convex, or even globose surface, more rarely a concave one, as in the carrot. See cuts under inflorescence, Thapsia , and Enanthe .-2. In zoöl . , an umbelliform tuft, cluster, or group of parts, as of polypites borne upon a polypidom. Bee cut under Umbellularia . - Compound, simple umbel. See the adjectives. Universal umbel, in bot . , a primary or general umbel; the first or largest set of rays in a compound umbel: opposed to partial umbel . A universal involucre is not infrequently placed at the foot of a universal umbel. umbella (um-bel'ä), n.; pl. umbellæ (-ē). [NL.: see umbel.] In bot., an umbel.