Brown word meaning and definition
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Meaning and definition for "brown" word
[noun] abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1858)
[noun] Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858)
[adjective] of a color similar to that of wood or earth
[verb] fry in a pan until it changes color; "brown the meat in the pan"
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(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.
\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. [imp. & p. p. {Browned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Browning}.] 1. To make brown or dusky. A trembling twilight o'er welkin moves, Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves. --Barlow. 2. To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour. 3. To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface. --Ure.
\Brown\, v. i. To become brown.
Synonyms for brown
brownish, brownness, chromatic, dark-brown, John Brown, Robert Brown
See also: abolitionist | botanist | buff | burnt sienna | burnt umber | caramel | caramel brown | chocolate | chromatic color | chromatic colour | coffee | cook | deep brown | emancipationist | light brown | olive brown | phytologist | plant scientist | puce | raw sienna | reddish brown | sepia | spectral color | spectral colour | taupe | umber | Vandyke brown | Venetian red | yellowish brown |
Related terms: bedarken, blanch, blot out, bronze, brownness, bunny brown, chocolate, cloud over, coconut, dun-brown, fawn, mummy, olive-drab, otter brown, oven-bake, overcloud, pan-broil, poach, roast, Roman umber, shadow, umber
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Let's analyse "brown" as pure text. This string has Five letters in One syllable and One vowel. 20% of vowels is 18.6% less then average English word. Written in backwards: NWORB. Average typing speed for these characters is 1250 milliseconds. [info]
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Numerology Hearts desire number calculated from vowels:
brown: 6 = 6, reduced: 6 . and the final result is Six. |
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