Also 7 ombrage. [f. prec., or ad. F. ombrager, -ier, † umbrager, -ier, f. ombrage: see prec. Cf. also It. ombreggiare.]
1. trans. To shade or shadow; also fig., to overshadow, put in the shade.
α. 1647. Hexham, I. To Vmbrage or shadow, beschaduwen.
1658. Jas. Webb, trans. Calprenède’s Cleopatra, VIII. 93. A man … whose valour umbraged theirs, and whose words they had found so true to their confusion.
1738. [G. Smith], Cur. Relat., I. iv. 465. They were separated from one another with Rails, and umbraged with a Sort of Canopy.
1804. Anna Seward, Mem. Darwin, 123. Rude gives an idea of barrenness, and Matlock is luxuriantly umbraged.
1888. Harper’s Mag., April, 733/2. A ridge or hillock heavily umbraged with the rounded foliage of evergreen oaks.
β. 1648. Hexham, II. Omschaduwen,… to Shaddowe About or to Ombrage.
1652. F. Kirkman, Clerio & Lozia, 16. His Hat was ombraged with a plume of black Herons Feathers.
† 2. To color over, disguise. Obs.–1
1675. R. Burthogge, Causa Dei, 312. If she mentioned others, it was by way of caution, only to secure her self, and Umbrage what she said that it might down the better.
† b. To give a pretext or ground for. Obs.–1
1689. Hickeringill, Modest Inquiries, 35. Like that young Gallant, studying what he should see in her [sc. an old woman] to Vmbrage the fondness of his Embraces.
3. To offend, displease. rare.
a. 1894. Stevenson, St. Ives, xxiv. May I help myself to wine without umbraging you.
Hence Umbraged, Umbraging ppl. adjs.
1663. Sir G. Mackenzie, Religious Stoic, i. 12. Intimating thereby that umbrag’d silence was an excellent Shryn for sincere devotions.
1683. Pettus, Fleta Min., I. Ded. They are divulged either by umbraging Sophistications, or concealed under the Name of Philosophical Secrets.
1890. Lippincott’s Mag., May, 667. A park, a wood, an umbraged lane.
