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Brown   /braʊn/   Listen
Brown

adjective
(compar. browner; superl. brownest)
1.
Of a color similar to that of wood or earth.  Synonyms: brownish, chocolate-brown, dark-brown.
2.
(of skin) deeply suntanned.  Synonym: browned.
noun
1.
An orange of low brightness and saturation.  Synonym: brownness.
2.
Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858).  Synonym: Robert Brown.
3.
Abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859).  Synonym: John Brown.
4.
A university in Rhode Island.  Synonym: Brown University.
verb
(past & past part. browned; pres. part. browning)
1.
Fry in a pan until it changes color.
2.
Make brown in color.  Synonym: embrown.



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"Brown" Quotes from Famous Books



... pools. I can walk along the path—the path to Paradise—still lined with the blue-eyed speedwell and red campion; I know where the copse is carpeted with the bluebell and ragged robin, where grow the alders, and the hazels rich with brown nuts, the beeches and the oaks; where the flower of the yellow broom blazes like gold in the noontide sun; where the stockdove coos overhead in the ivy; where the kingfisher darts past like a shaft of sapphire, and the water ouzel flies up stream; where the pheasant glides ...
— The Book of the Bush • George Dunderdale

... department commander of Kansas; Grand Commander John M. Meacham, Department of the Potomac, Union Veterans' Union; Arthur Hendricks, past commander Department of the Potomac, Grand Army of the Republic; L.K. Brown, of Burnside Post, ...
— Messages and Papers of William McKinley V.2. • William McKinley

... two pairs of twins, Bert and Nan, nearly nine years of age, and Flossie and Freddie, almost five. And, whereas the two older children were rather tall and slim, with dark brown hair and eyes, the littler twins were short and fat, and had light hair and blue eyes. The two pairs of twins were quite a contrast, and many persons stopped to look at them as they ...
— The Bobbsey Twins at School • Laura Lee Hope

... marble have fallen away altogether, and the rugged brickwork is seen through the rents, but all beautiful; the ravaging fissures fretting their way among the islands and channelled zones of the alabaster, and the time-stains on its translucent masses darkened into fields of rich golden brown, like the color of seaweed when the sun strikes on it through deep sea. The light fades away into the recess of the chamber towards the altar, and the eye can hardly trace the lines of the bas-relief behind it of the baptism of Christ: but ...
— Stones of Venice [introductions] • John Ruskin

... a taste that was quiet and restrained. Without being beautiful, her features were clear-cut, almost strong, and there was a radiancy about her smile and a gaiety in her brown eyes that Bobby found perfectly entrancing. She was no longer quite young; she might have been thirty; indeed, her hair, which was dark brown, was ever so slightly touched with silver, but this seemed to add to her ...
— War-time Silhouettes • Stephen Hudson


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