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Same as Brun, a brook. [Scot.]

A girl or woman with a somewhat brown or dark complexion. -- a.

A nectarine.

Pertaining to, or invented by, Brown; -- a term applied to a system of medicine promulgated in the 18th century by John Brown, of Scotland, the fundamental doctrine of which was, that life is a state of excitation produced by the normal action of external agents upon the body, and that disease consists in excess or def…

See Japan black.

An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed.

or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle.

A celebrated Rhine wine.

organic principles (called also proteids) which form the main part of organized tissues. Brunton.

To give extreme unction to. [Obs.] R. of Brunne.

rtaining to Appius. Appian Way, the great paved highway from ancient Rome trough Capua to Brundisium, now Brindisi, constructed partly by Appius Claudius, about 312 b. c.

The doctrines of the Brunonian system of medicine. See Brunonian.

One who advocates the Brunonian system of medicine.

A member of an exceeding austere religious order, founded at Chartreuse in France by St. Bruno, in the year 1086.

The unbrunched antler of a young deer.

Harm. [Obs.] Robert of Brunne.

into sugar. The influence of acids and alkalies on the diastatic action of saliva. Lauder Brunton.

A species of kangaroo (Macropus Brunii), inhabiting New Guinea.

lliant green (Chem.), a complex aniline dye, resembling emerald green in composition. -- Brunswick green an oxychloride of copper. -- Chrome green. See under Chrome. -- Emerald green. (Chem.) (a) A complex basic derivative of aniline produced as a metallic, green crystalline substance, and used for dyeing silk, wool…

A half part. [Obs.] R. of Brunne.