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.

Cheeks brown as the oak leaves. --Longfellow.

{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.