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adjective

Brown adj. (compar. browner; superl. brownest) Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow. "Cheeks brown as the oak leaves."

Brown Bess, the old regulation flintlock smoothbore musket, with bronzed barrel, formerly used in the British army.

Brown bread

(a)

Dark colored bread; esp. a kind made of unbolted wheat flour, sometimes called in the United States Graham bread. "He would mouth with a beggar though she smelt brown bread and garlic."

(b)

Dark colored bread made of rye meal and Indian meal, or of wheat and rye or Indian; rye and Indian bread. (U.S.)

Brown coal, wood coal. See Lignite.

Brown hematite or Brown iron ore (Min.), the hydrous iron oxide, limonite, which has a brown streak. See Limonite.

Brown holland. See under Holland.

Brown paper, dark colored paper, esp. coarse wrapping paper, made of unbleached materials.

Brown spar (Min.), a ferruginous variety of dolomite, in part identical with ankerite.

Brown stone. See Brownstone.

Brown stout, a strong kind of porter or malt liquor.

Brown study, a state of mental abstraction or serious reverie.

noun

Brown n. A dark color inclining to red or yellow, resulting from the mixture of red and black, or of red, black, and yellow; a tawny, dusky hue.

verb

Brown v. t. (past & past part. browned; pres. part. browning)

1.

To make brown or dusky. "A trembling twilight o'er welkin moves, Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves."

2.

To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour.

3.

To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface.

Brown v. i. To become brown.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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