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A kind of brick of a light brown or yellowish color, made of sand, clay, and chalk.

e abaca. From it matting, canvas, ropes, and cables are made. -- Manila paper, a durable brown or buff paper made of Manila hemp, used as a wrapping paper, and as a cheap printing and writing paper. The name is also given to inferior papers, made of other fiber.

A wasting away of flesh; decay. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A brownish or dull red of any description, esp. of a scarlet cast rather than approaching crimson or purple.

ron, the symbol of which was the same as that of the planet Mars. [Archaic] Chaucer. Mars brown, a bright, somewhat yellowish, brown.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the god, or the planet, Mars. Sir T. Browne.

er of a master; indicating or expressing power or mastery. His masterful, pale face. Mrs. Browning.

To form from matter; to materialize. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Act of forming matter. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

e metal, fine metal, etc., according to the grade of fineness. On the exterior it is dark brown or black, but on a fresh surface is yellow or bronzy in color.

alled coal- tar, or aniline, dyes. It consists of the sulphate of mauveïne, and is a dark brown or bronze amorphous powder, which dissolves to a beatiful purple color. Called also aniline purple, violine, etc.

requiring the use of tools, or instruments. An art quite lost with our mechanics. Sir T. Browne.

The middle part; half; moiety. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Inland. Sir T. Browne.

A mineral of a red, or brownish or yellowish red color. It is a chromate of lead; -- called also phoenicocroite.

A mineral of a honey color, found in brown coal, and partly the result of vegetable decomposition; honeystone. It is a mellitate of alumina.

A falsehood; a lie. Sir T. Browne.

The act or practice of begging; beggary; mendicancy. Sir T. Browne.

A communication of news; an announcement. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

An answering phrase; repartee. Mrs. Browning.