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CUMBER, v.t. [G., to arrest, to concern, to trouble, to grieve.]

1. To load; to crowd.

A variety of frivolous arguments cumbers the memory to no purpose.

2. To check, stop or retard, as by a load or weight; to make motion difficult; to obstruct.

Why asks he what avails him not in fight, and would but cumber and retard his flight.

3. To perplex or embarrass; to distract or trouble.

Martha was cumbered about much serving. Luke 10.

4. To trouble; to be troublesome to; to cause trouble or obstruction in, as any thing useless. Thus, brambles cumber a garden or field. [See Encumber, which is more generally used.]

CUMBER, n. Hindrance; obstruction; burdensomeness; embarrassment; disturbance; distress.

Thus fade thy helps, and thus thy cumbers spring. [This word is now scarcely used.]


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CUMBER, v.t. [G., to arrest, to concern, to trouble, to grieve.]

1. To load; to crowd.

A variety of frivolous arguments cumbers the memory to no purpose.

2. To check, stop or retard, as by a load or weight; to make motion difficult; to obstruct.

Why asks he what avails him not in fight, and would but cumber and retard his flight.

3. To perplex or embarrass; to distract or trouble.

Martha was cumbered about much serving. Luke 10.

4. To trouble; to be troublesome to; to cause trouble or obstruction in, as any thing useless. Thus, brambles cumber a garden or field. [See Encumber, which is more generally used.]

CUMBER, n. Hindrance; obstruction; burdensomeness; embarrassment; disturbance; distress.

Thus fade thy helps, and thus thy cumbers spring. [This word is now scarcely used.]

CUM'BER, n.

Hinderance; obstruction; burdensomeness; embarrassment; disturbance; distress. Thus fade thy helps, and thus thy cumbers spring. – Spenser. [This word is now scarcely used.]


CUM'BER, v.t. [Dan. kummer, distress, incumbranee, grief; D. kommeren; G. kümmern, to arrest, to concern, to trouble, to grieve; Fr. encombrer, to encumber.]

  1. To load, or crowd. A variety of frivolous arguments cumbers the memory to no purpose. – Locke.
  2. To check, stop or retard, as by a load or weight; to make motion difficult; to obstruct. Why asks he what avails him not in fight, / And would but cumber and retard his flight. – Dryden.
  3. To perplex or embarrass; to distract or trouble. Martha was cumbered about much serving. – Luke x.
  4. To trouble; to be troublesome to; to cause trouble or obstruction in, as any thing useless. Thus, brambles cumber a garden or field. [See Encumber, which is more generally used.]

Cum"ber
  1. To rest upon as a troublesome or useless weight or load; to be burdensome or oppressive to; to hinder or embarrass in attaining an object, to obstruct or occupy uselessly; to embarrass; to trouble.

    Why asks he what avails him not in fight,
    And would but cumber and retard his flight?
    Dryden.

    Martha was cumbered about much serving.
    Luke x. 40.

    Cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?
    Luke xiii. 7.

    The multiplying variety of arguments, especially frivolous ones, . . . but cumbers the memory.
    Locke.

  2. Trouble; embarrassment; distress.

    [Obs.] [Written also comber.]

    A place of much distraction and cumber.
    Sir H. Wotton.

    Sage counsel in cumber.
    Sir W. Scott.

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Cumber

CUMBER, verb transitive [G., to arrest, to concern, to trouble, to grieve.]

1. To load; to crowd.

A variety of frivolous arguments cumbers the memory to no purpose.

2. To check, stop or retard, as by a load or weight; to make motion difficult; to obstruct.

Why asks he what avails him not in fight, and would but cumber and retard his flight.

3. To perplex or embarrass; to distract or trouble.

Martha was cumbered about much serving. Luke 10:40.

4. To trouble; to be troublesome to; to cause trouble or obstruction in, as any thing useless. Thus, brambles cumber a garden or field. [See Encumber, which is more generally used.]

CUMBER, noun Hindrance; obstruction; burdensomeness; embarrassment; disturbance; distress.

Thus fade thy helps, and thus thy cumbers spring. [This word is now scarcely used.]

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