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To rend apart. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

from its original import. J. Edwards. Our roads are diverse: farewell, love! said she. R. Browning.

Calf stained dark brown and worked without gilding, often used for theological books.

It is done or agreed; let it be a match or bargain; -- used elliptically. Done brown, a phrase in cookery; applied figuratively to one who has been thoroughly deceived, cheated, or fooled. [Colloq.] -- Done for, tired out; used up; collapsed; destroyed; dead; killed. [Colloq.] -- Done up. (a) Wrapped up. (b) Worn out;…

A brownish black native hydrocarbon occurring in elastic or jellylike masses.

The red-breasted or gray snipe (Macrorhamphus griseus); -- called also brownback, and grayback.

A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also drabcloth.

ll, Slavery, . . . still thou art a bitter draught. Sterne. Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired. Goldsmith.

A slight or imperfect sleep; a doze. But smiled on in a drowse of ecstasy. Mrs. Browning.

alsities for truths, dubiosities for certainties, possibilities for feasibilities. Sir T. Browne.

One who leads. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A seaweed of a reddish brown color, which is sometimes eaten, as in Scotland. The true dulse is Sarcophyllis edulis; the common is Rhodymenia. [Written also dillisk.] The crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush like a banner bathed in slaughter. Percival.

Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy. Summer's dun cloud comes thundering up. Pierpont. Chill and dun Falls on the moor the brief November day. Keble. Dun crow (Zoöl.), the hooded crow; -- so called from its color; -- also called hoody, and hoddy. -- Dun diver (Zoö…

Hardness; firmness. Sir T. Browne.

Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown. Bacon. When Jove in dusky clouds involves the sky. Dryden. The figure of that first ancestor invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur. Hawthorne.

ce to the ear. [R.] The perpetual jangling of the chimes . . . is no small earsore Sir T. Browne.

A mark (!) used to indicate an exclamation. G. Brown.

Of or pertaining to Eden; paradisaic. "Edenic joys." Mrs. Browning.

Edible. [Obs.] "Edulious pulses." Sir T. Browne.

Capable of being done or achieved; practicable; feasible. Sir T. Browne.