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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.

Peculiar to a people; national. Sir T. Browne.

he principles of geometry. Nature geometrizeth, and observeth order in all things. Sir T. Browne.

A kind of brown loaf. [Obs.] Dryden.

Bearing within; laden; burdened; pregnant. [R.] "Clouds gestant with heat." Mrs. Browning.

re. [Obs.] Accubation, or lying down at meals, was a gesture used by many nations. Sir T. Browne.

Hunched; hump-backed. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. -- Gib"bous*ly, adv. -- Gib"bous*ness, n.

The space between the eyebrows, also including the corresponding part of the frontal bone; the mesophryon. -- Gla*bel"lar, a.

Pertaining to, consisting of or resembling, ice; icy. Sir T. Browne.

Quality of being glandulous; a collection of glands. [R.] Sir T. Browne.