Brown
Brown (broun) , adjective
[Old English brun, broun, Anglo-Saxon brun; akin to Dutch bruin, Old High German brun, Icelandic brúnn, Swedish brun, Danish bruun, German braun, Lithuanian brunas, Sanskrit babhru. r93, 253. Compare Bruin, Beaver, Burnish, Brunette.]
Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.
Cheeks brown as the oak leaves.
Collocations (10)
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. He would mouth with a beggar though she smelt brown bread and garlic. (b) Dark colored bread made of rye meal and Indian meal, or of wheat and rye or Indian; rye and Indian bread. [United States]
Brown coal , wood coal. See Lignite.
Brown hematite or Brown iron ore (Mineralogy) , 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 (Mineralogy) , 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
Brown , noun
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.
Brown ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb
1.
To make brown or dusky.
A trembling twilight o'er welkin moves,
Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves.
2.
To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour.
3.
To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface. — Ure
Brown , intransitive verb
To become brown.