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Browsing. [Obs.] Evelyn.

as, a soap bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river. Beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow, Like bubbles in a late disturbed stream. Shak.

The color to buff; a light yellow, shading toward pink, gray, or brown. A visage rough, Deformed, unfeatured, and a skin of buff. Dryden.

esh-water fishes of the family Catostomidæ, of the Mississippi valley. The red-mouthed or brown (Ictiobus bubalus), the big-mouthed or black (Bubalichthys urus), and the small-mouthed (B. altus), are among the more important species used as food. -- Buffalo fly, or Buffalo gnat (Zoöl.), a small dipterous insect of the…

A swelling or prominence, resulting from a bump or blow; a protuberance. It had upon its brow A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone. Shak.

en first prepared in Burgundy, is rare, but there are many imitations. It has a yellowish brown color, is translucent and hard, but viscous. It is used in medicinal plasters.

To speak with burr; to make a hoarse or guttural murmur. Mrs. Browning.

Thick and spreading, like a bush. "Bushy eyebrows." Irving.

ram. [See Butt, n.] A snow-white steer before thine altar led, Butts with his threatening brows. Dryden.

A yellow or smoky brown variety of rock crystal, or crystallized quartz, found esp, in the mountain of Cairngorm, in Scotland.

A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazel- brown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a species of ebony, and is obtained from the Diospyros qusesita. Called also Coromandel wood.

Of the nature of a calculus; like stone; gritty; as, a calculous concretion. Sir T. Browne.

To grow hot or warm. Sir T. Browne.

Dimness; cloudiness. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

with the wings and tail greenish, but in its wild state it is more frequently of gray or brown color. It is sometimes called canary finch.canary.

Melodious; musical. "Birds that are most canorous." Sir T. Browne. A long, lound, and canorous peal of laughter. De Quincey.

A capillary blood vessel. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A numbering of heads or individuals. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Cover with, or as with, a hood. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Other species of Cabus, as C. fatuellus (the brown or horned capucine.), C. albifrons (the cararara), and C. apella.