'Brown' definitions:
Definition of 'brown'
(from WordNet)
adjective
adjective
(of skin) deeply suntanned [syn: brown, browned]
noun
An orange of low brightness and saturation [syn: brown, brownness]
noun
Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858) [syn: Brown, Robert Brown]
noun
Abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859) [syn: Brown, John Brown]
noun
A university in Rhode Island [syn: Brown University, Brown]
verb
Fry in a pan until it changes color; "brown the meat in the pan"
verb
Make brown in color; "the draught browned the leaves on the trees in the yard" [syn: embrown, brown]
Definition of 'Brown'
From: GCIDE
- Brown \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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Brown'
From: GCIDE
- Brown \Brown\, 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]
Definition of 'Brown'
From: GCIDE
- Brown \Brown\ (broun), a. [Compar. Browner; superl. Brownest.] [OE. brun, broun, AS. br?n; akin to D. bruin, OHG. br?n, Icel. br?nn, Sw. brun, Dan. bruun, G. braun, Lith. brunas, Skr. babhru. [root]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]
Definition of 'Brown'
From: GCIDE
- Brown \Brown\, v. i. To become brown. [1913 Webster]
Brown -- U.S. County in Kansas
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Brown -- U.S. County in Kansas
Population (2000) :
10724
Housing Units (2000) :
4815
Land area (2000) :
570.674427 sq. miles (1478.039918 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
1.521689 sq. miles (3.941157 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
572.196116 sq. miles (1481.981075 sq. km)
Located within :
Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location :
39.813050 N, 95.562704 W
Brown -- U.S. County in Indiana
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Brown -- U.S. County in Indiana
Population (2000) :
14957
Housing Units (2000) :
7163
Land area (2000) :
312.264196 sq. miles (808.760520 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
4.357889 sq. miles (11.286879 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
316.622085 sq. miles (820.047399 sq. km)
Located within :
Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location :
39.228538 N, 86.218138 W
Brown -- U.S. County in Minnesota
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Brown -- U.S. County in Minnesota
Population (2000) :
26911
Housing Units (2000) :
11163
Land area (2000) :
610.863843 sq. miles (1582.130022 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
7.740608 sq. miles (20.048081 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
618.604451 sq. miles (1602.178103 sq. km)
Located within :
Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location :
44.255312 N, 94.696210 W
Brown -- U.S. County in Nebraska
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Brown -- U.S. County in Nebraska
Population (2000) :
3525
Housing Units (2000) :
1916
Land area (2000) :
1221.279443 sq. miles (3163.099102 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
3.796873 sq. miles (9.833856 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
1225.076316 sq. miles (3172.932958 sq. km)
Located within :
Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location :
42.534188 N, 99.871572 W
Brown -- U.S. County in Ohio
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Brown -- U.S. County in Ohio
Population (2000) :
42285
Housing Units (2000) :
17193
Land area (2000) :
491.758790 sq. miles (1273.649365 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
3.457361 sq. miles (8.954523 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
495.216151 sq. miles (1282.603888 sq. km)
Located within :
Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location :
38.926434 N, 83.872440 W
Brown -- U.S. County in Texas
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Brown -- U.S. County in Texas
Population (2000) :
37674
Housing Units (2000) :
17889
Land area (2000) :
943.852819 sq. miles (2444.567475 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
13.083689 sq. miles (33.886597 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
956.936508 sq. miles (2478.454072 sq. km)
Located within :
Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location :
31.772058 N, 98.998706 W
Brown -- U.S. County in South Dakota
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Brown -- U.S. County in South Dakota
Population (2000) :
35460
Housing Units (2000) :
15861
Land area (2000) :
1713.069884 sq. miles (4436.830444 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
18.138538 sq. miles (46.978597 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
1731.208422 sq. miles (4483.809041 sq. km)
Located within :
South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location :
45.538665 N, 98.381992 W
Brown -- U.S. County in Wisconsin
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Brown -- U.S. County in Wisconsin
Population (2000) :
226778
Housing Units (2000) :
90199
Land area (2000) :
528.675390 sq. miles (1369.262916 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
86.749594 sq. miles (224.680408 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
615.424984 sq. miles (1593.943324 sq. km)
Located within :
Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location :
44.493492 N, 88.032769 W
Brown -- U.S. County in Illinois
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Brown -- U.S. County in Illinois
Population (2000) :
6950
Housing Units (2000) :
2456
Land area (2000) :
305.648958 sq. miles (791.627134 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
1.590768 sq. miles (4.120069 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
307.239726 sq. miles (795.747203 sq. km)
Located within :
Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location :
39.950254 N, 90.740237 W
Words containing 'Brown'
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- Browned,
- Browning,
- Brownness,
- Browns,
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- browned off,
- Bismarck brown,
- Brown Bess,
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- Brown Deer,
- Brown Lignite,
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- Brown hematite,
- Brown holland,
- Brown paper,
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- Brown spar,
- Brown stone,
- Brown stout,
- Brown study,
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- Brown, IL,
- Brown, KS,
- Brown, MN,
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- Brown, OH,
- Brown, SD,
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- Browning pistol,
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- Browning, MO,
- Browning, MT,
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- Cassel brown,
- Done brown,
- Garnet brown,
- Indigo brown,
- Liver brown,
- Manchester brown,
- Mars brown,
- Mummy brown,
- North Browning,
- South Browning,
- Spanish brown,
- Vandyke brown,
- Walnut brown,
- black brown,
- brown algae,
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- brown bat,
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- grayish brown,
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- meadow browns,
- olive brown,
- reddish brown,
- robert brown,
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- brown brownish dark-brown,
- Brown City, MI,
- Brown County, IL,
- Brown County, KS,
- Brown County, MN,
- Brown County, NE,
- Brown County, OH,
- Brown County, SD,
- Brown County, TX,
- Brown County, WI,
- Brown Deer, WI,
- Brown iron ore,
- Browns Lake, WI,
- Browns Mills, NJ,
- Browns Valley, MN,
- Hair-brown,
- North Browning, MT,
- Nut-brown,
- Seal-brown,
- South Browning, MT,
- Whity-brown,
- alaskan brown bear,
- big brown bat,
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- boston brown bread,
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- brown rot gummosis,
- brown soft scale,
- brown-black,
- brown-gray,
- brown-green,
- brown-grey,
- brown-haired,
- brown-nose,
- brown-purple,
- brown-speckled,
- brown-striped,
- browned suntanned tanned,
- browning automatic rifle,
- browning machine gun,
- buff-brown,
- caramel caramel brown,
- charles farrar browne,
- chestnut-brown,
- chinese brown sauce,
- chocolate-brown,
- chukker-brown,
- dark-brown,
- elizabeth barrett browning,
- european brown bat,
- golden-brown,
- gray-brown,
- grayish-brown,
- greenish-brown,
- grey-brown,
- greyish-brown,
- hablot knight browne,
- hazel-brown,
- john m. browning,
- john moses browning,
- little brown bat,
- little brown myotis,
- lyman frank brown,
- mummy-brown,
- olive-brown,
- orange-brown,
- purple-brown,
- purplish-brown,
- red-brown,
- reddish-brown,
- rust-brown,
- rusty-brown,
- sam browne belt,
- snuff-brown,
- tawny-brown,
- yellow-brown,
- Colt-Browning pistol,
- auburn reddish-brown,
- brown root rot fungus,
- brown-tail moth,
- adust sunburned burned brown by the sun,
- amber brownish-yellow yellow-brown,
- snuff snuff-brown snuff-color snuff-colour snuff-colored snuff-coloured mummy-brown chukker-brown