- an earth consisting chiefly of a hydrated oxide of iron and some oxide of manganese, used in its natural state as a brown pigment (raw umber ) or, after heating, as a reddish-brown pigment (burnt umber ).
- the color of such a pigment; dark dusky brown or dark reddish brown.
- the European grayling, Thymallus thymallus.
- shade; shadow.
- of the color umber.
- to color with or as if with umber.
- any of various natural brown earths containing ferric oxide together with lime and oxides of aluminium, manganese, and silicon
- any of the dark brown to greenish-brown colours produced by this pigment
- short for umber moth
- obsolete
- shade or shadow
- any dark, dusky, or indefinite colour
- of, relating to, or stained with umber
