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- Brown - superl. - Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.
- 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.
- Brown - v. t. - To make brown or dusky.
- Brown - v. t. - To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour.
- Brown - v. t. - To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface.
- Brown - v. i. - To become brown.
- Brown bill - - A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill.
- Brown thrush - - A common American singing bird (Harporhynchus rufus), allied to the mocking bird; -- also called brown thrasher.
- Brownback - n. - The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
- Browned - imp. & p. p. - of Brown
- Brownian - a. - Pertaining to Dr. Robert Brown, who first demonstrated (about 1827) the commonness of the motion described below.
- Brownie - n. - An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.
- Browning - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Brown
- Browning - n. - The act or operation of giving a brown color, as to gun barrels, etc.
- Browning - n. - A smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster.
- Brownish - a. - Somewhat brown.
- Brownism - n. - The views or teachings of Robert Brown of the Brownists.
- Brownism - n. - The doctrines of the Brunonian system of medicine. See Brunonian.
- Brownist - n. - 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.
- Brownist - n. - One who advocates the Brunonian system of medicine.
- Brownness - n. - The quality or state of being brown.
- Brownstone - n. - A dark variety of sandstone, much used for building purposes.
- Brownwort - n. - A species of figwort or Scrophularia (S. vernalis), and other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous coarse flowers.
- Browny - a. - Brown or, somewhat brown.
- Mica - n. - The name of a group of minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic. They differ widely in composition, and vary in color from pale brown or yellow to green or black. The transparent forms are used in lanterns, the doors of stoves, etc., being popularly called isinglass. Formerly called also cat-silver, and glimmer.
- Malay - n. - One of a race of a brown or copper complexion in the Malay Peninsula and the western islands of the Indian Archipelago.
- Kirumbo - n. - A bird of Madagascar (Leptosomus discolor), the only living type of a family allied to the rollers. It has a pair of loral plumes. The male is glossy green above, with metallic reflections; the female is spotted with brown and black.
- Bonito - n. - A large tropical fish (Orcynus pelamys) allied to the tunny. It is about three feet long, blue above, with four brown stripes on the sides. It is sometimes found on the American coast.
- Hardbake - n. - A sweetmeat of boiled brown sugar or molasses made with almonds, and flavored with orange or lemon juice, etc.
- Caramel - n. - Burnt sugar; a brown or black porous substance obtained by heating sugar. It is soluble in water, and is used for coloring spirits, gravies, etc.
- Chloasma - n. - A cutaneous affection characterized by yellow or yellowish brown pigmented spots.
- Linsang - n. - Any viverrine mammal of the genus Prionodon, inhabiting the East Indies and Southern Asia. The common East Indian linsang (P. gracilis) is white, crossed by broad, black bands. The Guinea linsang (Porana Richardsonii) is brown with black spots.
- Ringneck - n. - Any one of several species of small plovers of the genus Aegialitis, having a ring around the neck. The ring is black in summer, but becomes brown or gray in winter. The semipalmated plover (Ae. semipalmata) and the piping plover (Ae. meloda) are common North American species. Called also ring plover, and ring-necked plover.
- Sal - n. - An East Indian timber tree (Shorea robusta), much used for building purposes. It is of a light brown color, close-grained, heavy, and durable.
- Thresher - n. - A name given to the brown thrush and other allied species. See Brown thrush.
- Limonite - n. - Hydrous sesquioxide of iron, an important ore of iron, occurring in stalactitic, mammillary, or earthy forms, of a dark brown color, and yellowish brown powder. It includes bog iron. Also called brown hematite.
- Lurid - a. - Having a brown color tonged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.
- Retinite - n. - An inflammable mineral resin, usually of a yellowish brown color, found in roundish masses, sometimes with coal.
- Holland - n. - A kind of linen first manufactured in Holland; a linen fabric used for window shades, children's garments, etc.; as, brown or unbleached hollands.
- Umber - n. - A brown or reddish pigment used in both oil and water colors, obtained from certain natural clays variously colored by the oxides of iron and manganese. It is commonly heated or burned before being used, and is then called burnt umber; when not heated, it is called raw umber. See Burnt umber, below.
- Hair-brown - a. - Of a clear tint of brown, resembling brown human hair. It is composed of equal proportions of red and green.
- Vansire - n. - An ichneumon (Herpestes galera) native of Southern Africa and Madagascar. It is reddish brown or dark brown, grizzled with white. Called also vondsira, and marsh ichneumon.
- Vesuvianite - n. - A mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals, and also massive, of a brown to green color, rarely sulphur yellow and blue. It is a silicate of alumina and lime with some iron magnesia, and is common at Vesuvius. Also called idocrase.
- Indiretin - n. - A dark brown resinous substance obtained from indican.
- V moth - - A common gray European moth (Halia vauaria) having a V-shaped spot of dark brown on each of the fore wings.
- Cairngormstone - - A yellow or smoky brown variety of rock crystal, or crystallized quartz, found esp, in the mountain of Cairngorm, in Scotland.
- Ulmin - n. - A brown amorphous substance found in decaying vegetation. Cf. Humin.
- Crocidolite - n. - A mineral occuring in silky fibers of a lavender blue color. It is related to hornblende and is essentially a silicate of iron and soda; -- called also blue asbestus. A silicified form, in which the fibers penetrating quartz are changed to oxide of iron, is the yellow brown tiger-eye of the jewelers.
- Podophyllin - n. - A brown bitter gum extracted from the rootstalk of the May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). It is a complex mixture of several substances.
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- Genesis 1 30:40 - And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban ; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.
והכשׂבים הפריד יעקב ויתן פני הצאן אל־עקד וכל־חום בצאן לבן וישׁת־לו עדרים לבדו ולא שׁתם על־צאן לבן - Genesis 1 30:35 - And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted , and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted , and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
ויסר ביום ההוא את־התישׁים העקדים והטלאים ואת כל־העזים הנקדות והטלאת כל אשׁר־לבן בו וכל־חום בכשׂבים ויתן ביד־בניו - Genesis 1 30:33 - So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face : every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
וענתה־בי צדקתי ביום מחר כי־תבוא על־שׂכרי לפניך כל אשׁר־איננו נקד וטלוא בעזים וחום בכשׂבים גנוב הוא אתי - Genesis 1 30:32 - I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats : and of such shall be my hire.
אעבר בכל־צאנך היום הסר משׁם כל־שׂה נקד וטלוא וכל־שׂה־חום בכשׂבים וטלוא ונקד בעזים והיה שׂכרי
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- Genesis 1 30:35 And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstreaked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
סוּר יוֹם תַּיִשׁ עָקֹד טָלָא עֵז נָקֹד טָלָא לָבָן חוּם כֶּשֶׂב נָתַן יָד בֵּן - Genesis 1 30:32 I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.
עָבַר צֹאן יוֹם סוּר נָקֹד טָלָא שֶׂה חוּם שֶׂה כֶּשֶׂב טָלָא נָקֹד עֵז שָׂכָר - Genesis 1 30:40 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstreaked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.
יַעֲקֹב פָּרַד כֶּשֶׂב נָתַן פָּנִים צֹאן אֵל עָקֹד חוּם צֹאן לָבָן שִׁית עֵדֶר שִׁית לָבָן צֹאן - Genesis 1 30:33 So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
צְדָקָה עָנָה יוֹם מָחָר בּוֹא שָׂכָר פָּנִים כֹּל נָקֹד טָלָא עֵז חוּם כֶּשֶׂב גָּנַב