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Brown \Brown\, n.
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.
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Brown \Brown\ (broun), a. [Compar. {Browner}; superl.
{Brownest}.] [OE. brun, broun, AS. br?n; akin to D. bruin,
OHG. br?n, Icel. br?nn, Sw. brun, Dan. bruun, G. braun, Lith.
brunas, Skr. babhru. [root]93, 253. Cf. {Bruin}, {Beaver},
{Burnish}, {Brunette}.]
Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or
yellow.
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Cheeks brown as the oak leaves. --Longfellow.
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{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.
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Brown \Brown\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Browned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Browning}.]
1. To make brown or dusky.
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A trembling twilight o'er welkin moves,
Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves.
--Barlow.
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2. To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or
flour.
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3. To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by
forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface. --Ure.
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Brown \Brown\, v. i.
To become brown.
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