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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.

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

A name given to various roots, tubers, or pods grown under or on the ground; as to:

A picture which represents the Savior as given up to the people by Pilate, and wearing a crown of thorns.

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.

action; no longer productive; barren; sterile. Effete results from virile efforts. Mrs. Browning If they find the old governments effete, worn out, . . . they may seek new ones. Burke.

To give assurance to. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

That which is egested or thrown off from the body by the various excretory channels; excrements; -- opposed to ingesta.

Having no granules, as chlorophyll in certain conditions. R. Brown.

The flying feathery or hairy crown of seeds or achenes, as the down of the thistle.

A liquid hydrocarbon, C20H38, of the acetylene series, obtained from brown coal.

Matter ejected; material thrown out; as, the ejecta of a volcano; the ejecta, or excreta, of the body.

overeign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes, elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Sir W. Jones.

A mineral resin, of a blackish brown color, occurring in soft, flexible masses; -- called also mineral caoutchouc, and elastic bitumen.

Electrifying; thrilling; magnetic. "Electric Pindar." Mrs. Browning. Electric atmosphere, or Electric aura. See under Aura. -- Electrical battery. See Battery. -- Electrical brush. See under Brush. -- Electric cable. See Telegraph cable, under Telegraph. -- Electric candle. See under Candle. -- Electric cat (Zoöl.…