English English Dictionary

Without shame.

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

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

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.

To make brown or dusky.

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

To become brown.

A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill.

A common American singing bird (Harporhynchus rufus), allied to the mocking bird; -- also called brown thrasher.

The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.

of Brown

Pertaining to Dr. Robert Brown, who first demonstrated (about 1827) the commonness of the motion described below.

An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.

of Brown

The act or operation of giving a brown color, as to gun barrels, etc.

A smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster.

Somewhat brown.

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

The views or teachings of Robert Brown of the Brownists.

A follower of Robert Brown, of England, in the 16th century, who taught that every church is complete and independent in itself when organized, and consists of members meeting in one place, having full power to elect and depose its officers.