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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Cum·brous 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.
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