Part 1425

<h1>Browless</h1> <Xpage=185>

<hw>Brow"less</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Without shame.</def>

<i>L. Addison.</i>

<h1>Brown</h1> <Xpage=185>

<hw>Brown</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>Compar.</tt> <er>Browner</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>superl.</tt> <er>Brownest</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>brun</ets>, <ets>broun</ets>, AS. <ets>br<?/n</ets>; akin to D. <ets>bruin</ets>, OHG. <ets>br<?/n</ets>, Icel. <ets>br<?/nn</ets>, Sw. <ets>brun</ets>, Dan. <ets>bruun</ets>, G. <ets>braun</ets>, Lith. <ets>brunas</ets>, Skr. <ets>babhru</ets>. \'fb93, 253. Cf. <er>Bruin</er>, <er>Beaver</er>, <er>Burnish</er>, <er>Brunette</er>.]</ety> <def>Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.</def>

<blockquote>Cheeks <b>brown</b> as the oak leaves. <i>Longfellow.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Brown Bess</col>, <cd>the old regulation flintlock smoothbore musket, with bronzed barrel, formerly used in the British army.</cd> -- <col>Brown bread</col> <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>Dark colored bread; esp. a kind made of unbolted wheat flour, sometimes called in the United States <i>Graham bread</i></cd>. "He would mouth with a beggar though she smelt <i>brown bread</i> and garlic." <i>Shak</i>. <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>Dark colored bread made of rye meal and Indian meal, or of wheat and rye or Indian; rye and Indian bread.</cd> <mark>[U.S.]</mark> -- <col>Brown coal</col>, <cd>wood coal. See <er>Lignite</er>.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Brown hematite</col> or <col>Brown iron ore</col></mcol> <fld>(Min.)</fld>, <cd>the hydrous iron oxide, limonite, which has a brown streak. See <er>Limonite</er>.</cd> -- <col>Brown holland</col>. <cd>See under <er>Holland</er>.</cd> -- <col>Brown paper</col>, <cd>dark colored paper, esp. coarse wrapping paper, made of unbleached materials.</cd> -- <col>Brown spar</col> <fld>(Min.)</fld>, <cd>a ferruginous variety of dolomite, in part identical with ankerite.</cd> -- <col>Brown stone</col>. <cd>See <er>Brownstone</er>.</cd> -- <col>Brown stout</col>, <cd>a strong kind of proter or malt liquor.</cd> -- <col>Brown study</col>, <cd>a state of mental abstraction or serious reverie.</cd></cs>

<i>W. Irving.</i>

<h1>Brown</h1> <Xpage=185>

<hw>Brown</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Brown</h1> <Xpage=185>

<hw>Brown</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Browned</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Browning</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To make brown or dusky.</def>

<blockquote>A trembling twilight o'er welkin moves,< qex>Browns</b> the dim void and darkens deep the groves. <i>Barlow.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To make brown by scorching slightly; <as>as, to <ex>brown</ex> meat or flour</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface.</def>

<i>Ure.</i>

<h1>Brown</h1> <Xpage=185>

<hw>Brown</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To become brown.</def>

<h1>Brownback</h1> <Xpage=185>

<hw>Brown"back`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See <er>Dowitcher</er>.</def>

<h1>Brown bill</h1> <Xpage=185>

<hw>Brown" bill`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <ety>[<ets>Brown</ets> + <ets>bill</ets> cutting tool.]</ety> <def>A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th <er>Bill</er>.</def>

<blockquote>Many time, but for a sallet, my brainpan had been cleft with a <b>brown bill</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; The <i>black</i>, or as it is sometimes called, the <i>brown bill</i>, was a kind of halberd, the cutting part hooked like a woodman's bill, from the back of which projected a spike, and another from the head.</note>

<i>Grose.</i>

<h1>Brownian</h1> <Xpage=185>

<hw>Brown"i*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Pertaining to Dr. Robert <i>Brown</i>, who first demonstrated (about 1827) the commonness of the motion described below.</def>

<cs><col>Brownian movement</col>, <cd>the peculiar, rapid, vibratory movement exhibited by the microscopic particles of substances when suspended in water or other fluids.</cd></cs>