Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of a group of colors between red and yellow in hue that are medium to low in lightness and low to moderate in saturation.
- adjective Of the color brown.
- adjective Having a brownish or dark skin color.
- adjective Often Offensive Of or being a person of nonwhite origin.
- adjective Deeply suntanned.
- transitive & intransitive verb To make or become brown.
- transitive & intransitive verb To cook until brown.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A brown produced upon textile material with catechu. Also called
cutch brown . Seecatechu . - Of a dark or dusky color, inclining to redness or yellowness.
- to deceive him; take him in.
- noun A dark colorinclined to red or yellow. It may be obtained by mixing red, black, and yellow.
- noun A halfpenny. [English slang.]
- To become brown.
- To make brown or dusky.
- Specifically— To produce a brown color in by exposure to heat, as of meat, bread, etc., to that of a fire in roasting or toasting, or of the skin to that of the sun. To give a brown luster to (articles of iron, as gun-barrels, etc.), by applying certain preparations.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make brown or dusky.
- transitive verb To make brown by scorching slightly.
- transitive verb To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface.
- adjective Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.
- adjective the old regulation flintlock smoothbore musket, with bronzed barrel, formerly used in the British army.
- adjective [U.S.] Dark colored bread made of rye meal and Indian meal, or of wheat and rye or Indian; rye and Indian bread.
- adjective wood coal. See
Lignite . - adjective (Min.) the hydrous iron oxide, limonite, which has a brown streak. See
Limonite . - adjective See under
Holland . - adjective dark colored paper, esp. coarse wrapping paper, made of unbleached materials.
- adjective (Min.) a ferruginous variety of dolomite, in part identical with ankerite.
- adjective See
Brownstone . - adjective a strong kind of porter or malt liquor.
- adjective a state of mental abstraction or serious reverie.
- 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.
- intransitive verb To become brown.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
colour like that ofchocolate orcoffee . - noun snooker One of the
colour balls used insnooker with a value of 4 points. - noun
Black tar heroin . - adjective Having a brown
colour . - adjective obsolete
Gloomy . - verb To become brown.
- verb cooking To cook something until it becomes brown.
- verb To
tan .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858)
- noun abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859)
- verb fry in a pan until it changes color
- adjective of a color similar to that of wood or earth
- adjective (of skin) deeply suntanned
- verb make brown in color
- noun a university in Rhode Island
- noun an orange of low brightness and saturation
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The wide acceptation of the term brown has occasioned much confusion in the naming of colours, since broken colours in which red, &c. predominate, have been improperly called brown.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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The term brown bear is commonly used to refer to the members of this species found in coastal areas where salmon is the primary food source.
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The term brown bear is commonly used to refer to the members of this species found in coastal areas where salmon is the primary food source.
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In Connective Tissue the brown is the bizarre world stuff and the bluish tinted work is the “real world” (or is it?).
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But they put the tamarind on it which they call brown sauce so it was waaaaay too sweet.
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Now, for helicopters, which always fly low in the dangerous areas down there, landing is a particularly difficult thing because we have the situation, which we call brown out, which particularly in Afghanistan, dust is kicked up and can really obscure your vision when you're trying to feel those last few feet and dropping a helicopter in the last few feet can cause significant damage there to the whole thing.
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One of the big criticisms of Superfund been not what has happens at the biggest sites, but what happens at smaller sites, what we refer to as brown fields.
Briefing By Browner And Summers ITY National Archives 1996
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Rice-unrefined, what you call brown rice-restore normal condition, good health to MCC gene.
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas Robbins, Tom 1994
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Dick remained the same frank merry fellow as ever; and even when there was a thick crop growing on his cheeks and chin, which he called brown mustard and cress, he was as full of boyish fun as ever.
Menhardoc George Manville Fenn 1870
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-- So this is what thou calls a brown hood, is it?
The King's Daughters Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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These “brown goods” — named for their wood, bakelite, and, later, black plastic materials — were their own consumer category, according to Cynthia Cockburn’s and Susan Ormrod’s 1993 study, Gender and Technology in the Making.
The maddening story of why microwaves were first marketed only to men Stephanie Buck 2018
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Noun (uncommon): beer/stout.
Usage: "I played the pump and took the hump and watered whiskey down/I talked of whores and horses to the men who drank the brown." -- "Sally MacLennane," the Pogues, lyrics c. 1985 Shane Macgowan
February 7, 2007