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Brown

adjective
(compar. browner; superl. brownest)
1.
Of a color similar to that of wood or earth.  Synonyms: brownish, chocolate-brown, dark-brown.
2.
(of skin) deeply suntanned.  Synonym: browned.
noun
1.
An orange of low brightness and saturation.  Synonym: brownness.
2.
Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858).  Synonym: Robert Brown.
3.
Abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859).  Synonym: John Brown.
4.
A university in Rhode Island.  Synonym: Brown University.
verb
(past & past part. browned; pres. part. browning)
1.
Fry in a pan until it changes color.
2.
Make brown in color.  Synonym: embrown.



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"Brown" Quotes from Famous Books



... he go and leave her. An impulse which was utterly new to him surged over him now, the impulse to gather her up into his arms as one would a child and comfort her. Not that she was just a child. She had done her shining brown hair high up on her head; she fought wildly for an air of serene dignity; he judged her at the last of her teens. But she was none the less flower-like, all that a true woman should be according to the beliefs of certain men of the type of Jim Kendric, a true descendant ...
— Daughter of the Sun - A Tale of Adventure • Jackson Gregory
... the freedom from taxation granted to masters and students at Paris (104) with the grant to professors at Brown University (187b). Was the Brown University grant exceptional, or common ...
— THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION • ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY
... the figure of a girl, moving swiftly. She must have come out of the wood. She went as freely as a woodland thing, although she was conventionally dressed in a tailor suit of brown. Her hat, too, was brown, and a brown feather curled over the brim. She walked fast, with evidently as much enjoyment of the motion as James himself. They both walked ...
— 'Doc.' Gordon • Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman
... he was handing in the volumes to the young woman whose duty it was to receive them when he was hailed by a brisk little man in an alpaca coat, with a skin like brown parchment. ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... This fish today put out the apparatus with which it swam. It consisted of two broad transparent wings, shaped like the first pair of wings of a butterfly, and which it moved in a precisely similar manner. Its shell was of a delicate pale transparent brown colour, with a jet black spot in the centre. (See Illustration 6 volume 1 Figure 1.) We also caught an animal of a precisely similar form and colour with this, but which was not provided ...
— Journals Of Two Expeditions Of Discovery In North-West And Western Australia, Vol. 2 (of 2) • George Grey


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