cummer (kumer)

[Sc., also kimmer: see kimmer and commere.] 1. A go ip; a friend or an acquaintance. The lane was full thikke and com be rouse to come vp or down for the rokkes. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 464. Swift to their several quarters hasted then The cumbrous elements, earth, flood, air, fire. Milton , P. L., iii. 715. The proce es by which that evolution [of organized beings) takes place are long, cumbrous , and wasteful proce es of natural selection and hereditary descent. W. K. Clifford, Lectures, I. 213. A canty quean was Kate, and a special cummer of my ain may be twenty years syne. Scott , Monastery, viii. 2. Any woman; specifically, a girl or young woman.-3. A midwife.-4. A witch. cummerbund, kamarband (kum'er-bund), n. [Anglo-Ind. cummerbund, Hind. prop. kamar band , kamar , the loins, + band , also bandh , a band, tie, Skt. ✔ bandh , tie, = E. bind1 , q. v.] A shawl, or large and loose sash, worn as a belt. Such a waist-band is a common part of East Indian costume, and, besides serving as a girdle, is useful as a protection to the abdomen. White-turbaned natives, with scarlet and gold ropes fastened round the waist, glided about in the halls; and some of the more important added to the dignity of their appearance by wearing large daggers in their cummerbunds. W. H. Ru ell, Diary in India, I. 113. 2. Causing trouble or annoyance; trouble cummin, n. See cumin. some; vexatious. IMG:content-1798.png:[blocks in formation] ment; cumber . Who-so wole haue heuen to his hire, Kepe he him from the deuelis combirment . -some.] 1. Burdensome; troublesome; em- barras sing; vexatious: as, "cumbersome obe- dience," Sir P. Sidney. IMG:content-1799.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][ocr errors][merged small] By due proportion measuring ev'ry pace, T' avoid the cumbrance of each hindering doubt. Drayton, Barons' Wars. The two kings, for the combrance of their traines, were constrained to di euer themselues for time of their iourney. Hakluyt's Voyages , II. 21. IMG:content-1800.png:[blocks in formation]