meaning of brownei
1. Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.
2. 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.
3. To make brown or dusky.
4. To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour.
5. To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface.
6. To become brown.
7. A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill.
8. A common American singing bird (Harporhynchus rufus), allied to the mocking bird; -- also called brown thrasher.
Related Words
brown | brown and sharpe wire gauge | brownback | browned | brownian | brownie | browning | brownish | brownism | brownist | brownness | brownstone | brownwort | browny |
