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Webster 1913 Edition

Brown

Brown

(broun)
,
Adj.
[
Com
par.
Browner
;
sup
erl.
Brownest
.]
[OE.
brun
,
broun
, AS.
br[GREEK]n
; akin to D.
bruin
, OHG.
br[GREEK]n
, Icel.
br[GREEK]nn
, Sw.
brun
, Dan.
bruun
, G.
braun
, Lith.
brunas
, Skr.
babhru
. √93, 253. Cf.
Bruin
,
Beaver
,
Burnish
,
Brunette
.]
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 called in the United States Graham bread.
“He would mouth with a beggar though she smelt brown bread and garlic.”
Shak.
(b)
Dark colored bread made of rye meal and Indian meal, or of wheat and rye or Indian; rye and Indian bread.
[U.S.]
–
Brown coal
,
wood coal. See
Lignite
.
–
Brown hematite
or
Brown iron ore
(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.

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

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Browned
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Browning
.]
1.
To make brown or dusky.
A trembling twilight o’er welkin moves,
Browns
the dim void and darkens deep the groves.
Barlow.
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

,
Verb.
I.
To become brown.

Webster 1828 Edition

Brown

BROWN

,
Adj.
Dusky; of a dark or dusky color, inclining to redness; but the shades are various, as Spanish brown, London brown, clove brown, tawny brown. Brown results from a mixture of red, black and yellow.

BROWN

,
Verb.
T.
To make brown or dusky.
A trembling twilight o'er the welkin moves,
Browns the dim void, and darkens deep the groves.

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