BPage 286
- English Word Brothers-in-law Definition of Brother-in-law
- English Word Brouded Definition Braided; broidered.
- English Word Brougham Definition A light, close carriage, with seats inside for two or four, and the fore wheels so arranged as to turn short.
- English Word Brought Definition of Bring
- English Word Brow Definition The prominent ridge over the eye, with the hair that covers it, forming an arch above the orbit.
- English Word Brow Definition The hair that covers the brow (ridge over the eyes); the eyebrow.
- English Word Brow Definition The forehead; as, a feverish brow.
- English Word Brow Definition The general air of the countenance.
- English Word Brow Definition The edge or projecting upper part of a steep place; as, the brow of a precipice; the brow of a hill.
- English Word Brow Definition To bound to limit; to be at, or form, the edge of.
- English Word Browbeat Definition of Browbeat
- English Word Browbeat Definition 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.
- English Word Browbeaten Definition of Browbeat
- English Word Browbeating Definition of Browbeat
- English Word Browbeating Definition The act of bearing down, abashing, or disconcerting, with stern looks, supercilious manners, or confident assertions.
- English Word Browbound Definition Crowned; having the head encircled as with a diadem.
- English Word Browdyng Definition Embroidery.
- English Word Browed Definition Having (such) a brow; -- used in composition; as, dark-browed, stern-browed.
- English Word Browless Definition Without shame.
- English Word Brown Definition Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.
- English Word Brown Definition 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.
- English Word Brown Definition To make brown or dusky.
- English Word Brown Definition To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour.
- English Word Brown Definition To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface.
- English Word Brown Definition To become brown.
- English Word Brown bill Definition A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill.
- English Word Brown thrush Definition A common American singing bird (Harporhynchus rufus), allied to the mocking bird; -- also called brown thrasher.
- English Word Brownback Definition The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
- English Word Browned Definition of Brown
- English Word Brownian Definition Pertaining to Dr. Robert Brown, who first demonstrated (about 1827) the commonness of the motion described below.