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A species of figwort or Scrophularia (S. vernalis), and other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous coarse flowers.

Brown or, somewhat brown. "Browny locks." Shak.

A beam that goes across a building.

and other animals; green food. Spenser. Sheep, goats, and oxen, and the nobler steed, On browse, and corn, and flowery meadows feed. Dryden.

An animal that browses.

Srubs and bushes upon which animals browse.

Browse; also, a place abounding with shrubs where animals may browse. Browsings for the deer. Howell.

A rounded organ between the eyes of the frog; the interocular gland.

An overhanging brow.

Having prominent, overhanging brows; hence, lowering or sullen.

Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding. Shak. Dryden.

Shamelessly impudent. Sir T. Browne.

A brown pigment of varying permanence, consisting of impure lignite. It was found originally near Cassel (now Kassel), Germany.

Having a gloomy look.

To embroider; to adorn. [Obs.] Embrowded was he, as it were a mead All full of fresshe flowers, white and red. Chaucer.

To give a brown color to; to imbrown. Summer suns embrown the laboring swain. Fenton.

The brow or hairy arch above the eye. Shak.

Of a clear tint of brown, resembling brown human hair. It is composed of equal proportions of red and green.

To make brown; to obscure; to darken; to tan; as, features imbrowned by exposure. The mountain mass by scorching skies imbrowned. Byron.

Brown as a nut long kept and dried. "The spicy nutbrown ale." Milton.