cumbrance
English
Noun
cumbrance (countable and uncountable, plural cumbrances)
- (obsolete) encumbrance
- Milton
- Extol not riches then, the toil of fools,
The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare.
- Extol not riches then, the toil of fools,
- Milton
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cumbrance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)