Cumber

Definition of Cumber

Cum´ber Pronunciation: k?m´b?r

v. t.	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. [imp. & p. p. Cumbered (-b?rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cumbering.] 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.
n.	1.	Trouble; embarrassment; distress. A place of much distraction and cumber. - Sir H. Wotton. Sage counsel in cumber. - Sir W. Scott.

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