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Having awns; bearded.

Having large, strong muscles; muscular; fleshy; strong. "Brawny limbs." W. Irving.

Having a lawn; characterized by a lawn or by lawns; like a lawn. Musing through the lawny park. T. Warton.

An East Indian curry soup.

See Mullagatawny.

Deep orange-yellow; dark yellow. Shak.

Meager; thin; rawboned; bony; scranny.

Of a dull yellowish brown color, like things tanned, or persons who are sunburnt; as, tawny Moor or Spaniard; the tawny lion. "A leopard's tawny and spotted hide." Longfellow.

reed of cattle raised in Alderney, one of the Channel Islands. Alderneys are of a dun or tawny color and are often called Jersey cattle. See Jersey, 3.

Wearing, or protected by, bases. [Obs.] "Based in lawny velvet." E. Hall.

Brawny; strong; muscular. [Obs.] Spenser.

The quality or state of being brawny.

Of a gray or tawny color with streaks of darker hue; streaked; brindled. "Three brinded cows," Dryden. "The brinded cat." Shak.

Having dark streaks or spots on a gray or tawny ground; brinded. "With a brindled lion played." Churchill.

; offspring; progeny; as, a woman with a brood of children. The lion roars and gluts his tawny brood. Wordsworth.

or yellow, resulting from the mixture of red and black, or of red, black, and yellow; a tawny, dusky hue.

ion of the subcutaneous tissue, esp. of the trunk or back of the neck, characterized by brawny hardness of the affected parts, sloughing of the skin and deeper tissues, and marked constitutional depression. It differs from a boil in size, tendency to spread, and the absence of a central core, and is frequently fatal. I…

druped (Felis concolor), resembling the African panther in size and habits. Its color is tawny, without spots; hence writers often called it the American lion. Called also puma, panther, mountain lion, and catamount. See Puma.

stocks instead of bulbs. The common species have long narrow leaves and either yellow or tawny-orange flowers.

Tawny; dull yellow, with a mixture of gray and brown. Lindley.