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Of a clear tint of brown, resembling brown human hair. It is composed of equal proportions of red and green.

A frame or barrow, without a wheel, carried by hand.

An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried. Bush harrow, a kind of light harrow made of bushes, for harrowing grass lands and covering seeds, or to finish the work of a toothed harrow. -- Drill harrow. See under 6th Drill. -- Under the harrow, subjected to actual torture with…

One who harrows.

The chief of a frankpledge, tithing, or decennary, consisting of ten families; -- called also borsholder, boroughhead, boroughholder, and sometimes tithingman. See Borsholder. [Eng.] Blackstone.

A row of shrubs, or trees, planted for inclosure or separation of fields. By hedgerow elms and hillocks green. Milton.

To make brown; to obscure; to darken; to tan; as, features imbrowned by exposure. The mountain mass by scorching skies imbrowned. Byron.

Growing or appearing to grow into some other substance. Ingrowing nail, one whose edges are becoming imbedded in the adjacent flesh.

A growth or development inward. J. LeConte.

r negro song and dance, the refrain of which is "Wheel about and turn about and jump Jim Crow," produced in 1835 by T. D. Rice, a famous negro minstrel. [Slang, U. S.]

A machine for bending or straightening rails.

Having an enlarged liver. Dunglison.

Having lungs that adhere to the pleura.

The essence; the best part. It takes from our achievements . . . The pith and marrow of our attribute. Shak.

A bone containing marrow; pl. ludicrously, knee bones or knees; as, to get down on one's marrowbones, i. e., to kneel.

A rich but late variety of pea.

Of the nature of, or like, marrow.

Destitute of marrow.

Full of marrow; pithy.

The millionth part of one weber.