English English Dictionary

Of or pertaining to winter.

Mist; fog; vapors.

Counterfeit; gaudy but worthless; sham.

Foggy; misty.

Same as Brun, a brook.

A girl or woman with a somewhat brown or dark complexion.

Having a dark tint.

A nectarine.

Pertaining to, or invented by, Brown; -- a term applied to a system of medicine promulgated in the 18th century by John Brown, of Scotland, the fundamental doctrine of which was, that life is a state of excitation produced by the normal action of external agents upon the body, and that disease consists in excess or deficiency of excitation.

See Japan black.

An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed.

The heat, or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle.

The force of a blow; shock; collision.

A skirmish; a slight encounter; a shock or collision; as, to have a brush with an enemy.

An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purposes, as in removing dust from clothes, laying on colors, etc. Brushes have different shapes and names according to their use; as, clothes brush, paint brush, tooth brush, etc.

A short contest, or trial, of speed.

To move nimbly in haste; to move so lightly as scarcely to be perceived; as, to brush by.

To apply a brush to, according to its particular use; to rub, smooth, clean, paint, etc., with a brush.

To touch in passing, or to pass lightly over, as with a brush.

To remove or gather by brushing, or by an act like that of brushing, or by passing lightly over, as wind; -- commonly with off.