Brown /(broun)/
Brown
a.
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Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.
Cheeks brown as the oak leaves.
Phrases & Compounds
- Brown Bess
- the old regulation flintlock smoothbore musket, with bronzed barrel, formerly used in the British army.
- Brown bread
- Dark colored bread; esp. a kind made of unbolted wheat flour, sometimes called in the United States Graham bread.
- Brown coal
- wood coal. See Lignite.
- Brown hematite
- 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
- 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.
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.
Brown
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Browned; p. pr. & vb. n. Browning
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To make brown or dusky.
A trembling twilight o'er welkin moves, Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves.
- To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour.
- 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.