Search the Dictionary

t piece of false hair worn by women. Like any plain Miss Smith's, who wears s front. Mrs. Browning.

endering productive of fruit; fecundation. The prevalent fructification of plants. Sir T. Brown.

A genus of tough, leathery seaweeds, usually of a dull brownish green color; rockweed.

t from the negro tribes, inhabiting an extensive region of Western Soudan. Their color is brown or yellowish bronze. They are Mohammedans. Called also Fellatahs, Foulahs, and Fellani. Fulah is also used adjectively; as, Fulah empire, tribes, language.

Dazzling brightness; splendor. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Tawny; dull yellow, with a mixture of gray and brown. Lindley.

To subject to the action of smoke. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Narrow, like the walk of a ropedancer. This funambulatory track. Sir T. Browne.

ining to a funeral or funerals; funeral; funereal. [Obs.] [Written also funebral.] Sir T. Browne.

reduced to ashes, as part of a funeral rite; a pyre. -- Fu"ner*al*ly, adv. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A brown, nitrogenous pigment contained in the retinal epithelium; a variety of melanin.

Brown or grayish black; darkish. Sad and fuscous colors, as black or brown, or deep purple and the like. Burke.

A yellow or brown amorphous substance, of indifferent nature, found in cod-liver oil.

The West Indian Sciadophyllum Brownei, a tree with very large digitate leaves.

Excessive gayety; merriment. [Obs.] The mirth and galliardise of company. Sir. T. Browne.

To frighten; to worry. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] T. Brown.

Pertaining to, or resembling, garum. Sir T. Browne.

Pertaining to laughter; used in laughing. "Gelastic muscles." Sir T. Browne.

Double; in pairs. Sir T. Browne.

cter; native; natural; inborn. [Obs.] Natural incapacity and genial indisposition. Sir T. Browne.