umber

A brown clay, somewhat darker than ochre, which contains iron and manganese oxides.

I'll put myself in poor and mean attire, And with a kind of umber smirch my face; The like do you; so shall we pass along, And never stir assailants.

Alternative form of umbrere.

A grayling.

A dusky brown African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the shoebill and herons; a hamerkop.

Of a reddish brown colour, like that of the pigment.

Their harps are of the umber shade / That hides the blush of waking day.

To give a reddish-brown colour to.

Armies o'er armies heap'd, the locusts came, Like clouds in autumn umbering all the sky […]