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Definition of Cumbrously

Cumbrously
Cumbrous Cum"brous (k?m"br?s), a. 1. Rendering action or motion difficult or toilsome; serving to obstruct or hinder; burdensome; clogging. He sunk beneath the cumbrous weight. --Swift. That cumbrousand unwieldy style which disfigures English composition so extensively. --De Quincey. 2. Giving trouble; vexatious. [Obs.] A clud of cumbrous gnats. --Spenser. -- Cum"brous*ly, adv. -- Cum"brous*ness, n.

Meaning of Cumbrously from wikipedia

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- of plants] is still nameless, and we can only describe our pursuit by ****brous and often misleading periphrasis. To meet this difficulty I suggest for...
- identical to the aberration measured with an air-filled telescope. A "****brous" attempt to explain these results used the hypothesis of partial aether-drag...
- story as "rather middling—not as bad as the worst, but full of cheap and ****brous touches". Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright first rejected the story...
- multiplication they effected in many ways, ours among them, but division they did ****brously. These place value decimal arithmetic algorithms were introduced to Arab...
- of the mountains, From the terror of the nations, As he lay asleep and ****brous On the summit of the mountains, Like a rock with mosses on it, Spotted...
- Thomas Rawlinson some time in the 1720s. He felt that the belted plaid was "****brous and unwieldy", and his solution was to separate the skirt and convert it...
- slave, and therefore eromenos would be more specific and can "avoid the ****brousness and…imprecision of 'boy'". It is in contrast to the masculine active...
- English visitor noted the small, s****y Norman horses "running away with our ****brous machine, at the rate of six or seven miles an hour". At this speed stagecoaches...
- like Lord Brougham, was the amelioration of the law by the abolition of ****brous technicalities rather than the ****ertion of new principles. To this end...