umlaut (omlout)

t. [ The Academy, March 17, 1888, p. 190. II. n. 1. One of an ancient Italian people umpirage (um'pir-aj), n. [ umpire + -age .] who inhabited Umbria.-2. The language of the Umbrians: it was an Italic tongue, allied to Oscan and more distantly to Latin. Its chief monument is the Eugubine tables. See Eugu bine. Umbridæ (um'bri-dē), n. pl. [NL., Umbra ; the mud-minnows. fied by the genus Umbra ; They are small carnivorous fishes living in the mud, or among the weeds of ponds and sluggish streams, extreme- ly tenacious of life, and able to survive when the water is almost dried up. The relationships of the family are close with the pikes ( Esocida ). See minnow , and cut under Umbra .