Browner

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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           Cheeks brown as the oak leaves.          --Longfellow.
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     {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.
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