Word Meanings - ADANGLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Dangling. Browning.

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• BROWNBACK
  The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
• BROWNIE
  An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.
• BROWNNESS
  The quality or state of being brown. Now like I brown ; Only in brownness beauty dwelleth there. Drayton.
• BROWNWORT
  A species of figwort or Scrophularia , and other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous coarse flowers.
• BROWNY
  Brown or, somewhat brown. "Browny locks." Shak.
• BROWNIAN
  Pertaining to Dr. Robert Brown, who first demonstrated (about 1827) the commonness of the motion described below. Brownian movement, the peculiar, rapid, vibratory movement exhibited by the microscopic particles of substances when suspended in water
• BROWN THRUSH
  A common American singing bird , allied to the mocking bird; -- also called brown thrasher.
• BROWNIST
  A follower of Robert Brown, of England, in the 16th century, who taught that every church is complete and independent in itself when organized, and consists of members meeting in one place, having full power to elect and depose its officers.
• BROWNISH
  Somewhat brown.
• BROWN
  1. To make brown or dusky. A trembling twilight o'er welkin moves,Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves. Barlow. 2. To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour. 3. To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels,
• DANGLER
  One who dangles about or after others, especially after women; a trifler. " Danglers at toilets." Burke.
• BROWNSTONE
  A dark variety of sandstone, much used for building purposes.
• BROWN BILL
  A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill. Many time, but for a sallet, my brainpan had been cleft with a brown bill. Shak. Note: The black, or as it is sometimes called, the brown bill, was a kind of halberd, the cutting part
• BROWN RACE
  The Malay or Polynesian race; -- loosely so called.
• DANGLE
  To hang loosely, or with a swinging or jerking motion. he'd rather on a gibbet dangle Than miss his dear delight, to wrangle. Hudibras. From her lifted hand Dangled a length of ribbon. Tennyson. To dangle about or after, to hang upon importunately;
• BROWNING
  A smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster. (more info) 1. The act or operation of giving a brown color, as to gun barrels, etc.
• BROWNISM
  The views or teachings of Robert Brown of the Brownists. Milton.
• DANGLEBERRY
  A dark blue, edible berry with a white bloom, and its shrub closely allied to the common huckleberry. The bush is also called blue tangle, and is found from New England to Kentucky, and southward.
• DINGLE-DANGLE
  In a dangling manner.
• IMBROWN
  To make brown; to obscure; to darken; to tan; as, features imbrowned by exposure. The mountain mass by scorching skies imbrowned. Byron.
• ADANGLE
  Dangling. Browning.
• NUT-BROWN
  Brown as a nut long kept and dried. "The spicy nutbrown ale." Milton.
• SEAL-BROWN
  Of a rich dark brown color, like the fur of the fur seal after it is dyed.
• HAIR-BROWN
  Of a clear tint of brown, resembling brown human hair. It is composed of equal proportions of red and green.
• EMBROWN
  To give a brown color to; to imbrown. Summer suns embrown the laboring swain. Fenton.