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a. [ OE. bitelbrowed; cf. OE. bitel, adj., sharp, projecting, n., a beetle. See Beetle an insect. ] Having prominent, overhanging brows; hence, lowering or sullen. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The earlier meaning was, “Having bushy or overhanging eyebrows.” [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding. Shak. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Shamelessly impudent. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. browe, bruwe, AS. brū; akin to AS. br&aemacr_;w, breáw, eyelid, OFries. brē, D. braauw, Icel. brā, brūn, OHG. prāwa, G. braue, OSlav. brŭv&ibreve_;, Russ. brove, Ir. brai, Ir. & Gael. abhra, Armor. abrant, Gr. 'ofry`s, Skr. bhrū. Cf. Bray a bank, Bridge. ] 1. The prominent ridge over the eye, with the hair that covers it, forming an arch above the orbit. [ 1913 Webster ]

And his arched brow, pulled o'er his eyes,
With solemn proof proclaims him wise. Churchill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The hair that covers the brow (ridge over the eyes); the eyebrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

'T is not your inky brows, your brack silk hair. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The forehead; as, a feverish brow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The general air of the countenance. [ 1913 Webster ]

To whom thus Satan with contemptuous brow. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

He told them with a masterly brow. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The edge or projecting upper part of a steep place; as, the brow of a precipice; the brow of a hill. [ 1913 Webster ]

To bend the brow,
To knit the brows, to frown; to scowl. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To bound to limit; to be at, or form, the edge of. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Tending my flocks hard by i' the hilly crofts
That brow this bottom glade. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. any of several herbs of the genus Browallia cultivated for their blue or violet or white flowers.
Syn. -- bush violet. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. Browbeat; p. p. Browbeaten p. pr. & vb. n. Browbeating. ] To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; to abash or disconcert by impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully; as, to browbeat witnesses. [ 1913 Webster ]

My grandfather was not a man to be browbeaten. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of bearing down, abashing, or disconcerting, with stern looks, supercilious manners, or confident assertions. [ 1913 Webster ]

The imperious browbeatings and scorn of great men. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Crowned; having the head encircled as with a diadem. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Embroidery. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Of goldsmithrye, of browdyng, and of steel. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having (such) a brow; -- used in composition; as, dark-browed, stern-browed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without shame. L. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Browner superl. Brownest. ] [ OE. brun, broun, AS. br&unr_;n; akin to D. bruin, OHG. br&unr_;n, Icel. br&unr_;nn, Sw. brun, Dan. bruun, G. braun, Lith. brunas, Skr. babhru. √93, 253. Cf. Bruin, Beaver, Burnish, Brunette. ] Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cheeks brown as the oak leaves. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Browned p. pr. & vb. n. Browning. ] 1. To make brown or dusky. [ 1913 Webster ]

A trembling twilight o'er welkin moves,
Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves. Barlow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become brown. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Brown + bill cutting tool. ] A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill. [ 1913 Webster ]

Many time, but for a sallet, my brainpan had been cleft with a brown bill. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The black, or as it is sometimes called, the brown bill, was a kind of halberd, the cutting part hooked like a woodman's bill, from the back of which projected a spike, and another from the head. Grose. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having a tan color from exposure to the sun; -- of skin color.
Syn. -- suntanned, tanned. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Pertaining to Dr. Robert Brown, who first demonstrated (about 1827) the commonness of the motion described below. [ 1913 Webster ]

Brownian motion,
Brownian movement, the peculiar, rapid, vibratory movement exhibited by the microscopic particles of substances when suspended in water or other fluids. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ So called from its supposed tawny or swarthy color. ] An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or operation of giving a brown color, as to gun barrels, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Masonry) A smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat brown. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) The doctrines of the Brunonian system of medicine. See Brunonian. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) The views or teachings of Robert Brown of the Brownists. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) One who advocates the Brunonian system of medicine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being brown. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now like I brown (O lovely brown thy hair);
Only in brownness beauty dwelleth there. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft).
Syn. -- blackout, dimout. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a partial reduction in the amount of electric power available to customers in a region, such as by reduction of voltage or selective cutoff of certain customers; -- it occurs for example in summer when the demand for electricity for air-conditioning exceeds the supply, or when power to certain customers is cut off by a severe storm. It is contrasted with blackout, which is the total loss of electrical power in a region. [ PJC ]

. The Malay or Polynesian race; -- loosely so called. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. A dark variety of sandstone, much used for building purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. a building, especially a dwelling, faced with brownstone{ 1 }. [ PJC ]

(Zool.) A common American singing bird (Harporhynchus rufus), allied to the mocking bird; -- also called brown thrasher. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A species of figwort or Scrophularia (Scrophularia vernalis), and other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous coarse flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Brown or, somewhat brown. “Browny locks.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Carp.) A beam that goes across a building. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. brost, broust, sprout, shoot, F. brout browse, browsewood, prob. fr. OHG. burst, G. borste, bristle; cf. also Armor. brousta to browse. See Bristle, n., Brush, n. ] The tender branches or twigs of trees and shrubs, fit for the food of cattle and other animals; green food. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sheep, goats, and oxen, and the nobler steed,
On browse, and corn, and flowery meadows feed. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Browsed p. pr. & vb. n. Browsing. ] [ For broust, OF. brouster, bruster, F. brouter. See Browse, n., and cf. Brut. ] 1. To eat or nibble off, as the tender branches of trees, shrubs, etc.; -- said of cattle, sheep, deer, and some other animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yes, like the stag, when snow the plasture sheets,
The barks of trees thou browsedst. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fields . . . browsed by deep-uddered kine. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To look casually through (a book, books, or a set of documents), reading those parts which arouse one's interest. Contrasted with scan, in which one typically is searching for something specific. [ PJC ]

3. (Computers) To look at a series of electronic documents on a computer screen by means of a browser{ 2 }. [ PJC ]

v. i. 1. To feed on the tender branches or shoots of shrubs or trees, as do cattle, sheep, and deer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To pasture; to feed; to nibble; to graze. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To look casually through a book, books, or a set of documents, reading those parts which arouse one's interest. [ PJC ]

4. To search through a group of items to find something, not previously specified, which may be of interest. [ PJC ]

n. 1. An animal that browses. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Computers) a computer program that permits the user to view multiple electronic documents in a flexible sequence by the process of activating hypertext “buttons” within one document, which serves as a reference to the location of related document. The term is currently (late 1990's) used mostly for programs which allow traversing hypertext paths in documents on the internet. A typical browser will permit the user to easily reverse direction, and view again documents previously accessed. [ PJC ]

n. Shrubs and bushes upon which animals browse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Browse; also, a place abounding with shrubs where animals may browse. [ 1913 Webster ]

Browsings for the deer. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A rounded organ between the eyes of the frog; the interocular gland. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } A brown pigment of varying permanence, consisting of impure lignite. It was found originally near Cassel (now Kassel), Germany. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adj. of a color similar to that of wood or earth.
Syn. -- brown, brownish. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Having a gloomy look. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. em- (L. in) + brown. ] To give a brown color to; to imbrown. [ 1913 Webster ]

Summer suns embrown the laboring swain. Fenton. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , v. t. To embroider; to adorn. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Embrowded was he, as it were a mead
All full of fresshe flowers, white and red. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The brow or hairy arch above the eye. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]