Brown

Definition of Brown

Pronunciation: broun

Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.

- 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 called in the United States Graham bread.
b -	Dark colored bread made of rye meal and Indian meal, or of wheat and rye or Indian; rye and Indian bread. - Shak.

Brown coal
wood coal. See Lignite.

Brown hematite
(Min.) the hydrous iron oxide, limonite, which has a brown streak. See Limonite.

Brown holland
See under Holland.

Brown paper
dark colored paper, esp. coarse wrapping paper, made of unbleached materials.

Brown spar
(Min.) a ferruginous variety of dolomite, in part identical with ankerite.

Brown stone
See Brownstone.

Brown stout
a strong kind of porter or malt liquor.

Brown study
a state of mental abstraction or serious reverie. - W. Irving.

A dark color inclining to red or yellow, resulting from the mixture of red and black, or of red, black, and yellow; a tawny, dusky hue.

v. t.

To make brown or dusky.

[imp. & p. p. Browned ( ); p. pr. & vb. n. Browning.]

A trembling twilight o'er welkin moves,
Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves.

- Barlow.

To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour.

To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface.

v. i.

To become brown.

Related Words

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