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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.

A large and commodious, but generally cumbrous and sluggish boat, used for journeys on the Ganges.

A mound. See 3d Barrow, and Camp, n., 5.

One who, or that which, burrows; an animal that makes a hole under ground and lives in it.

A strolling gamester. [Ireland] Spenser.

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

The crowing noise made by children affected with spasm of the laryngeal muscles; false croup.

ting it in the form of a cross, by way of a charm. From infant conning of the Christcross-row. Wordsworth.

The time at which cooks first crow; the early morning.

A created or high-topped crown or head. "Like the copple-crown the lapwing has." T. Randolph. -- Cop"ple-crowned`, a.

See Christcross-row.

The alphabet; -- called also Christcross-row. And from the crossrow plucks the letter G. Shak.

shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance. "The cock had crown." Bayron. The morning cock crew loud. Shak.

A caltrop. [Written also crowfoot.]

A box or perch near the top of a mast, esp. in whalers, to shelter the man on the lookout.