a. Obs.; also 5 acombrous [for earlier encomberous: see ACCUMBER and -OUS; cf. CUMBROUS.] Cumbrous, oppressive, troublesome.
c. 1392. Chaucer, Compl. Venus, 42 (Tanner MS.). A litill tyme his gifte is agreable But ful acombrous is the vsynge [other MSS. encoumberouse, encumbrous, encomberous].
