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A player on the harp; a harper. W. Browne.

One who hates. An enemy to God, and a hater of all good. Sir T. Browne.

Native sulphide of manganese a reddish brown or brownish black mineral.

One of the suckerlike rootlets of such plants as the dodder and ivy. R. Brown.

Liable to hazard or chance; uncertain; risky. Sir T. Browne.

Of a light brown color, like the hazelnut. "Thou hast hazel eyes." Shak.

Of the color of the hazelnut; of a light brown. Mortimer.

One who, or that which, heartens, animates, or stirs up. W. Browne.

A week; a period of seven days. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

distinction in society; prominence. Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts. R. Browning. All would in his power hold, all make his subjects. Chapman.

ssing into it; rising or setting at the same, or nearly the same, time as the sun. Sir T. Browne.

A reddish brown or violet crystalline substance, C16H12O6, got from hematoxylin by partial oxidation, and regarded as analogous to the phthaleins.

cher. Called also specular iron, oligist iron, rhombohedral iron ore, and bloodstone. See Brown hematite, under Brown.

A substance, in the form of reddish brown, microscopic, prismatic crystals, formed from dried blood by the action of strong acetic acid and common salt; -- called also Teichmann's crystals. Chemically, it is a hydrochloride of hematin.

Pertaining to, or designating, a brown resinous substance resembling tannin, and extracted from the henna plant; as, hennotannic acid.

Liver of sulphur; a substance of a liver-brown color, sometimes used in medicine. It is formed by fusing sulphur with carbonates of the alkalies (esp. potassium), and consists essentially of alkaline sulphides. Called also hepar sulphuris (.

An opinion opposed to some accepted standard. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Act of gaping. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Belonging or relating to winter; wintry; winterish. Sir T. Browne.

lba, and has a very rough bark; it affords the hickory nut of the markets. The pignut, or brown hickory, is the C. glabra. The swamp hickory is C. amara, having a nut whose shell is very thin and the kernel bitter. Hickory shad. (Zoöl.) (a) The mattowacca, or fall herring. (b) The gizzard shad.