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Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow. Cheeks brown as the oak leaves. Longfellow. Brown Bess, the old regulation flintlock smoothbore musket, with bronzed barrel, formerly used in the British army. -- Brown bread (a) Dark colored bread; esp. a kind made of unbolted wheat flour, sometimes…

h centuries. See 4th Bill. Many time, but for a sallet, my brainpan had been cleft with a brown bill. Shak.

The Malay or Polynesian race; -- loosely so called.

n American singing bird (Harporhynchus rufus), allied to the mocking bird; -- also called brown thrasher.

The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.

Pertaining to Dr. Robert Brown, who first demonstrated (about 1827) the commonness of the motion described below. Brownian movement, the peculiar, rapid, vibratory movement exhibited by the microscopic particles of substances when suspended in water or other fluids.

An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping. [Scot.]

The act or operation of giving a brown color, as to gun barrels, etc.

Somewhat brown.

The views or teachings of Robert Brown of the Brownists. Milton.

A follower of Robert Brown, of England, in the 16th century, who taught that every church is complete and independent in itself when organized, and consists of members meeting in one place, having full power to elect and depose its officers.

The quality or state of being brown. Now like I brown (O lovely brown thy hair); Only in brownness beauty dwelleth there. Drayton.

A dark variety of sandstone, much used for building purposes.

A species of figwort or Scrophularia (S. vernalis), and other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous coarse flowers.

Brown or, somewhat brown. "Browny locks." Shak.

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

To give a brown color to; to imbrown. Summer suns embrown the laboring swain. Fenton.

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

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

Brown as a nut long kept and dried. "The spicy nutbrown ale." Milton.