Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 86
Bronzine (a.) Made of bronzine; resembling bronze; bronzelike.
Bronze (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Bronzed; p. pr. & vb. n. Bronzing.] [Cf. F. bronzer. See Bronze, n.] To give an appearance of bronze to, by a coating of bronze powder, or by other means; to make of the color of bronze; as, to bronze plaster casts; to bronze coins or medals.
The tall bronzed black-eyed stranger. -- W. Black.
Bronze (v. t.) To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.
The lawer who bronzes his bosom instead of his forehead. -- Sir W. Scott.
Bronzed skin disease. (Pathol.) See Addison's disease.
Bronzing (n.) The act or art of communicating to articles in metal, wood, clay, plaster, etc., the appearance of bronze by means of bronze powders, or imitative painting, or by chemical processes. -- Tomlinson.
Bronzing (n.) A material for bronzing.
Bronzist (n.) One who makes, imitates, collects, or deals in, bronzes.
Bronzite (n.) (Min.) A variety of enstatite, often having a bronzelike luster. It is a silicate of magnesia and iron, of the pyroxene family.
Bronzy (a.) Like bronze.
Bronzy (a.) Of the color of bronze [syn: bronze, bronzy].
Brooch (n.) 女用胸針（或領針）[C] An ornament, in various forms, with a tongue, pin, or loop for attaching it to a garment; now worn at the breast by women; a breastpin. Formerly worn by men on the hat.
Honor 's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat. -- B. Jonson.
Brooch (n.) (Paint.) A painting all of one color, as a sepia painting, or an India painting.
Brooch (v. t.) (imp. & p. p. Brooched) To adorn as with a brooch. [R.]
Brooch (n.) A decorative pin worn by women [syn: brooch, broach, breastpin].
Brooch (v.) Fasten with or as if with a brooch [syn: brooch, clasp].
Brood (a.) Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.
Brood (a.) Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow.
Brooded (imp. & p. p.) of Brood
Brooding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brood
Brood (v. i.) To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding.
Birds of calm sir brooding on the charmed wave. -- Milton.
Brood (v. i.) To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy, serious thought; -- usually followed by over or on; as, to brood over misfortunes.
Brooding on unprofitable gold. -- Dryden.
Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit. -- Hawthorne.
When with downcast eyes we muse and brood. -- Tennyson.
Brood (n.) The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens.
As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings. -- Luke xiii. 34.
A hen followed by a brood of ducks. -- Spectator.
Brood (n.) The young from the same dam, whether produced at the same time or not; young children of the same mother, especially if nearly of the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman with a brood of children.
The lion roars and gluts his tawny brood. -- Wordsworth.
Brood (n.) That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
Flocks of the airy brood, (Cranes, geese or long-necked swans). -- Chapman.
Brood (n.) (Mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
To sit on brood, to ponder. [Poetic] -- Shak.
Brood (v. t.) To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.
Brood (v. t.) To cherish with care. [R.]
Brood (v. t.) To think anxiously or moodily upon.
You'll sit and brood your sorrows on a throne. -- Dryden.
Brood (n.) The young of an animal cared for at one time.
Brood (v.) Think moodily or anxiously about something [syn: brood, dwell].
Brood (v.) Hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing; "The terrible vision brooded over her all day long" [syn: brood, hover, loom, bulk large].
Brood (v.) Be in a huff and display one's displeasure; "She is pouting because she didn't get what she wanted" [syn: sulk, pout, brood].
Brood (v.) Be in a huff; be silent or sullen [syn: grizzle, brood, stew].
Brood (v.) Sit on (eggs); "Birds brood"; "The female covers the eggs" [syn: brood, hatch, cover, incubate].
Broody (a.) Inclined to brood. -- Ray.
Broody (a.) Physiologically ready to incubate eggs; "a broody hen".
Broody (a.) Deeply or seriously thoughtful; "Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man"; [syn: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative].
Broody (n.) A domestic hen ready to brood [syn: brood hen, broody, broody hen, setting hen, sitter].
Brooked (imp. & p. p.) of Brook
Brooking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brook
Brook (v. t.) To use; to enjoy. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Brook (v. t.) To bear; to endure; to put up with; to tolerate; as, young men can not brook restraint. -- Spenser.
Shall we, who could not brook one lord, Crouch to the wicked ten? -- Macaulay.
Brook (v. t.) To deserve; to earn. [Obs.] -- Sir J. Hawkins.
Brook (n.) A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.
The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water. -- Deut. viii. 7.
Empires itself, as doth an inland brook Into the main of waters. -- Shak.
Brook (n.) A natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river); "the creek dried up every summer" [syn: brook, creek].
Brook (v.) Put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage" [syn: digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up].
Brook, () A torrent. (1.) Applied to small streams, as the Arnon, Jabbok, etc. Isaiah (15:7) speaks of the "book of the willows," probably the Wady-el-Asha. (2.) It is also applied to winter torrents (Job 6:15; Num. 34:5; Josh. 15:4, 47), and to the torrent-bed or wady as well as to the torrent itself (Num. 13:23; 1 Kings 17:3). (3.) In Isa. 19:7 the river Nile is meant, as rendered in the Revised Version.
Brook, IN -- U.S. town in Indiana
Population (2000): 1062
Housing Units (2000): 423
Land area (2000): 0.660769 sq. miles (1.711385 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.009309 sq. miles (0.024109 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.670078 sq. miles (1.735494 sq. km)
FIPS code: 07966
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 40.866026 N, 87.365812 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 47922
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Headwords:
Brook, IN
Brook
Brookite (n.) (Min.) A mineral consisting of titanic oxide, and hence identical with rutile and octahedrite in composition, but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.
Brooklet (n.) A small brook.
Brooklet, GA -- U.S. town in Georgia
Population (2000): 1113
Housing Units (2000): 467
Land area (2000): 3.057596 sq. miles (7.919137 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.037787 sq. miles (0.097867 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.095383 sq. miles (8.017004 sq. km)
FIPS code: 11000
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 32.382175 N, 81.664695 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 30415
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Headwords:
Brooklet, GA
Brooklet
Brooklime (n.) (Bot.) A plant ({Veronica Beccabunga), with flowers, usually blue, in axillary racemes. The American species is Veronica Americana. [Formerly written broklempe or broklympe.]
Brooklime (n.) European plant having low-lying stems with blue flowers; sparsely naturalized in North America [syn: brooklime, European brooklime, Veronica beccabunga].
Brooklime (n.) Plant of western North America and northeastern Asia having prostrate stems with dense racemes of pale violet to lilac flowers [syn: brooklime, American brooklime, Veronica americana].
Brook mint () (Bot.) See Water mint.
Brookside (n.) The bank of a brook.
Brookside, CO -- U.S. town in Colorado
Population (2000): 219
Housing Units (2000): 88
Land area (2000): 0.431535 sq. miles (1.117670 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.431535 sq. miles (1.117670 sq. km)
FIPS code: 09115
Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location: 38.413513 N, 105.190734 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Brookside, CO
Brookside
Brookside, DE -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Delaware
Population (2000): 14806
Housing Units (2000): 5645
Land area (2000): 3.908971 sq. miles (10.124187 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.908971 sq. miles (10.124187 sq. km)
FIPS code: 09850
Located within: Delaware (DE), FIPS 10
Location: 39.669211 N, 75.717961 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
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Brookside
Brookside, AL -- U.S. town in Alabama
Population (2000): 1393
Housing Units (2000): 613
Land area (2000): 5.983996 sq. miles (15.498477 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.010685 sq. miles (0.027675 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 5.994681 sq. miles (15.526152 sq. km)
FIPS code: 09736
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 33.631867 N, 86.913068 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
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Brookside
Brookside, OH -- U.S. village in Ohio
Population (2000): 644
Housing Units (2000): 304
Land area (2000): 0.173368 sq. miles (0.449020 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.173368 sq. miles (0.449020 sq. km)
FIPS code: 09316
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 40.071422 N, 80.760632 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Brookside, OH
Brookside
Brookweed (n.) (Bot.) A small white-flowered herb ({Samolus Valerandi) found usually in wet places; water pimpernel.
Brookweed (n.) American water pimpernel [syn: brookweed, Samolus parviflorus, Samolus floribundus].
Brookweed (n.) Water pimpernel of Europe to China [syn: brookweed, Samolus valerandii].
Broom (n.) (Bot.) A plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep with when bound together; esp., the Cytisus scoparius of Western Europe, which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular branches, minute leaves, and large yellow flowers.
No gypsy cowered o'er fires of furze and broom. -- Wordsworth.
Broom (n.) An implement for sweeping floors, etc., commonly made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; -- so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom.
Butcher's+broom,+a+plant+({Ruscus+aculeatus">Butcher's broom, a plant ({Ruscus aculeatus) of the Smilax family, used by butchers for brooms to sweep their blocks; -- called also knee holly. See Cladophyll.
Dyer's+broom,+a+species+of+mignonette+({Reseda+luteola">Dyer's broom, a species of mignonette ({Reseda luteola), used for dyeing yellow; dyer's weed; dyer's rocket.
Spanish broom. See under Spanish.
Broom (v. t.) (Naut.) See Bream. Broomcorn
Broom (n.) A cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle.
Broom (n.) Any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers.
Broom (n.) Common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere [syn: heather, ling, Scots heather, broom, Calluna vulgaris].
Broom (v.) Sweep with a broom or as if with a broom; "Sweep the crumbs off the table"; "Sweep under the bed" [syn: sweep, broom].
Broom (v.) Finish with a broom.
Broomcorn, Broom corn, () (Bot.) A tall variety of grass ({Sorghum vulgare technicum), having a joined stem, like maize, rising to the height of eight or ten feet, and bearing its seeds on a panicle with long stiff branches, of which brooms are made.
Compare: Rape
Rape (n.) (Bot.) A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage birds.
Note: These plants, with the edible turnip, have been variously named, but are all now believed to be derived from the Brassica campestris of Europe, which by some is not considered distinct from the wild stock ({Brassica oleracea) of the cabbage. See Cole.
Broom rape. (Bot.) See Broom rape, in the Vocabulary.
Rape cake, The refuse remaining after the oil has been expressed from the rape seed.
Rape root. Same as Rape.
Summer rape. (Bot.) See Colza.
Broom rape () (Bot.) A genus ({Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spiked flowers, and grow attached to the roots of other plants, as furze, clover, flax, wild carrot, etc. The name is sometimes applied to other plants related to this genus, as Aphyllon uniflorum and Aphyllon Ludovicianum.
Broomstaff (n.) A broomstick. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Broomstick (n.) A stick used as a handle of a broom.
Broomstick (n.) The handle of a broom [syn: broomstick, broom handle].
Broomy (a.) Of or pertaining to broom; overgrowing with broom; resembling broom or a broom.
If land grow mossy or broomy. -- Mortimer.
Brose (n.) Pottage made by pouring some boiling liquid on meal (esp. oatmeal), and stirring it. It is called beef brose, water brose, etc., according to the name of the liquid (beef broth, hot water, etc.) used. [Scot.]
Brotel (a.) Brittle. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Brotelness (n.) Brittleness. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Broth (n.) Liquid in which flesh (and sometimes other substances, as barley or rice) has been boiled; thin or simple soup.
I am sure by your unprejudiced discourses that you love broth better than soup. -- Addison.
Broth (n.) Liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces; "she made gravy with a base of beef stock" [syn: broth, stock].
Broth (n.) A thin soup of meat or fish or vegetable stock.
Brothel (n.) 妓院 A house of lewdness or ill fame; a house frequented by prostitutes; a bawdyhouse.
Brothel (n.) A building where prostitutes are available [syn: whorehouse, brothel, bordello, bagnio, house of prostitution, house of ill repute, bawdyhouse, cathouse, sporting house].
Brotheler (n.) One who frequents brothels.
Brothelry (n.) Lewdness; obscenity; a brothel. -- B. Jonson.
Brothers (n. pl. ) of Brother
Brethren (n. pl. ) of Brother
Brother (n.) A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more definitely called a half brother, or brother of the half blood.
Note: A brother having the same mother but different fathers is called a uterine brother, and one having the same father but a different mother is called an agnate brother, or in (Law) a consanguine brother. A brother having the same father and mother is called a brother-german or full brother. The same modifying terms are applied to sister or sibling.
Two of us in the churchyard lie, My sister and my brother. -- Wordsworth.
Brother (n.) One related or closely united to another by some common tie or interest, as of rank, profession, membership in a society, toil, suffering, etc.; -- used among judges, clergymen, monks, physicians, lawyers, professors of religion, etc. "A brother of your order." -- Shak.
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers, For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother. -- Shak.
Brother (n.) One who, or that which, resembles another in distinctive qualities or traits of character.
He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster. -- Prov. xviii. 9.
That April morn Of this the very brother. -- Wordsworth.
Note: In Scripture, the term brother is applied to a kinsman by blood more remote than a son of the same parents, as in the case of Abraham and Lot, Jacob and Laban. In a more general sense, brother or brethren is used for fellow-man or fellow-men.
For of whom such massacre Make they but of their brethren, men of men? -- Milton.
Brother Jonathan, A humorous designation for the people of the United States collectively. The phrase is said to have originated from Washington's referring to the patriotic Jonathan Trumbull, governor of Connecticut, as "Brother Jonathan."
Blood brother. See under Blood.
Brothered (imp. & p. p.) of Brother
Brother (v. t.) To make a brother of; to call or treat as a brother; to admit to a brotherhood. -- Sir W. Scott.
Brother (n.) A male with the same parents as someone else; "my brother still lives with our parents" [syn: brother, blood brother] [ant: sis, sister].
Brother (n.) A male person who is a fellow member (of a fraternity or religion or other group); "none of his brothers would betray him".
Brother (n.) A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities [syn: buddy, brother, chum, crony, pal, sidekick].
Brother (n.) Used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement; "Greetings, comrade!" [syn: brother, comrade].
Brother (n.) (Roman Catholic Church) a title given to a monk and used as form of address; "a Benedictine Brother".
Brother In the natural and common sense (Matt. 1:2; Luke 3:1, 19).
Brother A near relation, A cousin (Gen. 13:8; 14:16; Matt. 12:46; John 7:3; Acts 1:14; Gal. 1:19).
Brother Simply a fellow-countryman (Matt. 5:47; Acts 3:22; Heb. 7:5).
Brother A disciple or follower (Matt. 25:40; Heb. 2:11, 12).
Brother One of the same faith (Amos 1:9; Acts 9:30; 11:29; 1 Cor. 5:11); whence the early disciples of our Lord were known to each other as brethren.
Brother A colleague in office (Ezra 3:2; 1 Cor. 1:1; 2 Cor. 1:1).
Brother A fellow-man (Gen. 9:5; 19:7; Matt. 5:22, 23, 24; 7:5; Heb. 2:17).
Brother One beloved or closely united with another in affection (2 Sam. 1:26; Acts 6:3; 1 Thess. 5:1). Brethren of Jesus (Matt. 1:25; 12:46, 50: Mark 3:31, 32; Gal. 1:19; 1 Cor. 9:5, etc.) were probably the younger children of Joseph and Mary. Some have supposed that they may have been the children of Joseph by a former marriage, and others that they were the children of Mary, the Virgin's sister, and wife of Cleophas. The first interpretation, however, is the most natural.
Brother, () Domest. relat. He who is born from the same father and mother with another, or from one of them only.
Brother, () Brothers are of the whole blood, when they are born of the same father and mother, and of the half blood, when they are the issue of one of them only.
Brother, () In the civil law, when they are the children of the same father and mother, they are called brothers germain; when they descend from the same father, but not the same mother, they are consanguine brothers; when they are the issue of the same mother, but not the same father, they are uterine brothers. A half brother, is one who is born of the same father or mother, but not of both. One born of the same parents before they were married, a left-sided brother; and a bastard born of the same father or mother, is called a natural brother. Vide Blood; Half-blood; Line; and Merl. Repert. mot Frere; Dict. de Jurisp. mot Frere; Code, 3, 28, 27 Nov. 84, praef; Dane's Ab. Index, h. t.
German (a.) Nearly related; closely akin.
Wert thou a leopard, thou wert german to the lion. -- Shak.
Brother german. See Brother german.
Cousins german. See the Note under Cousin.
Brother german () (Law) A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only. -- Bouvier.
Brotherhood (n.) 手足情誼，兄弟關係 The state of being brothers or a brother.
Brotherhood (n.) An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.
Brotherhood (n.) The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.
Brotherhood (n.) Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind.
A brotherhood of venerable trees. -- Wordsworth.
Syn: Fraternity; association; fellowship; sodality.
Brotherhood (n.) The kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings.
Brotherhood (n.) People engaged in a particular occupation; "the medical fraternity" [syn: {brotherhood}, {fraternity}, {sodality}].
Brotherhood (n.) The feeling that men should treat one another like brothers.
Brotherhood (n.) An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job" [An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job" [syn: {union}, {labor union}, {trade union}, {trades union}, {brotherhood}]: {union}, {labor union}, {trade union}, {trades union}, {brotherhood}].
Brothers-in-law (n. pl. ) of Brother-in-law
Brother-in-law (n.) The brother of one's husband or wife; also, the husband of one's sister; sometimes, the husband of one's wife's sister.
Brotherliness (n.) The state or quality of being brotherly.
Brotherly (a.) Of or pertaining to brothers; such as is natural for brothers; becoming to brothers; kind; affectionate; as, brotherly love.
Syn: Fraternal; kind; affectionate; tender.
Brotherly (adv.) Like a brother; affectionately; kindly. "I speak but brotherly of him." -- Shak.
Brotherly (adv.) (Archaic as adverb) In a brotherly manner
Brotherly (a.) Like or characteristic of or befitting a brother; "brotherly feelings"; "close fraternal ties" [syn: brotherly, brotherlike, fraternal] [ant: sisterlike, sisterly, sororal].
Brouded (p. a.) Braided; broidered. [Obs.]
Alle his clothes brouded up and down. -- Chaucer.
Brougham (n.) A light, close carriage, with seats inside for two or four, and the fore wheels so arranged as to turn short.
Brougham (n.) Light carriage; pulled by a single horse.
Brougham (n.) A sedan that has no roof over the driver's seat.
Brow (v. t.) To bound to limit; to be at, or form, the edge of. [R.]
Tending my flocks hard by i' the hilly crofts That brow this bottom glade. -- Milton.
Brow (n.) The prominent ridge over the eye, with the hair that covers it, forming an arch above the orbit.
And his arched brow, pulled o'er his eyes, With solemn proof proclaims him wise. -- Churchill.
Brow (n.) The hair that covers the brow (ridge over the eyes); the eyebrow.
'T is not your inky brows, your brack silk hair. -- Shak.
Brow (n.) The forehead; as, a feverish brow.
Beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow. -- Shak.
Brow (n.) The general air of the countenance.
To whom thus Satan with contemptuous brow. -- Milton.
He told them with a masterly brow. -- Milton.
Brow (n.) The edge or projecting upper part of a steep place; as, the brow of a precipice; the brow of a hill.
To bend the brow, To knit the brows, to frown; to scowl.
Brow (n.) The part of the face above the eyes [syn: brow, forehead].
Brow (n.) The arch of hair above each eye [syn: eyebrow, brow, supercilium].
Brow (n.) The peak of a hill; "the sun set behind the brow of distant hills" [syn: hilltop, brow].
Broward County, Florida (n.) 布勞沃德縣（Broward County, Florida）是位於美國佛羅里達州東南部的一個縣。面積3,418平方公里。根據美國人口調查局2000年統計，共有人口1,777,638人。縣治勞德代爾堡。成立於1915年4月30日。縣名是紀念第五任州長拿破崙·波那巴·布勞沃德。
Broward County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Florida. As of 2016, the population was 1,909,632, [1] making it the second-most populous county in Florida and the 17th-most populous in the United States. Its county seat is Fort Lauderdale. [2]
Broward County is one of the three counties in South Florida which make up the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,012,331 people at the 2015 census.
Browbeat (imp.) of Browbeat
Browbeaten (p. p.) of Browbeat
Browbeating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Browbeat
Browbeat (v. t.) 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.
My grandfather was not a man to be browbeaten. -- W. Irving.
Browbeat (v.) Be bossy towards; "Her big brother always bullied her when
she was young" [syn: strong-arm, bully, browbeat, bullyrag, ballyrag, boss around, hector, push around].
Browbeat (v.) Discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate [syn: browbeat, bully, swagger].
Browbeat (v.) [ T ] (Browbeat, browbeaten) 威嚇，嚇唬 To try to force someone to do something by threatening them or persuading them forcefully and unfairly.
// Don't be browbeaten into working more hours than you want.
Browbeating (n.) The act of bearing down, abashing, or disconcerting, with stern looks, supercilious manners, or confident assertions.
The imperious browbeatings and scorn of great men. -- L'Estrange.
Browbeat (v. t.) [imp. Browbeat; p. p. Browbeaten; p. pr. & vb. n. Browbeating.] 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.
My grandfather was not a man to be browbeaten. -- W. Irving.
Browbound (a.) Crowned; having the head encircled as with a diadem. -- Shak.
Browdyng (n.) Embroidery. [Obs.]
Of goldsmithrye, of browdyng, and of steel. -- Chaucer.
Browed (a.) Having (such) a brow; -- used in composition; as, dark-browed, stern-browed.
Browless (a.) Without shame. -- L. Addison.
Brown (n.) 褐色，棕色；棕色顏料；棕色衣服 [U] [C]；【英】【俚】銅幣 [C] 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.
Brown (a.) 褐色的，棕色的；皮膚黝黑的；太陽曬黑的 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, () 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.
Brown bread, () 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.
Browned (imp. & p. p.) of Brown
Browning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brown
Brown (v. t.) 使變成褐色（或棕色） To make brown or dusky.
A trembling twilight o'er welkin moves, Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves. -- Barlow.
Brown (v. t.) To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour.
Brown (v. t.) To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface.
Brown (v. i.) 變成褐色（或棕色） To become brown.
Brown (a.) Of a color similar to that of wood or earth [syn: brown, brownish, chocolate-brown, dark-brown].
Brown (a.) (Of skin) Deeply suntanned [syn: brown, browned].
Brown (n.) An orange of low brightness and saturation [syn: brown, brownness].
Brown (n.) Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858) [syn: Brown, Robert Brown].
Brown (n.) Abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859) [syn: Brown, John Brown].
Brown (n.) A university in Rhode Island [syn: Brown University, Brown].
Brown (v.) Fry in a pan until it changes color; "brown the meat in the pan".
Brown (v.) Make brown in color; "the draught browned the leaves on the trees in the yard" [syn: embrown, brown].
Brown -- U.S. County in Illinois
Population (2000): 6950
Housing Units (2000): 2456
Land area (2000): 305.648958 sq. miles (791.627134 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.590768 sq. miles (4.120069 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 307.239726 sq. miles (795.747203 sq. km)
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 39.950254 N, 90.740237 W
Headwords:
Brown
Brown, IL
Brown County
Brown County, IL
Brown -- U.S. County in Kansas
Population (2000): 10724
Housing Units (2000): 4815
Land area (2000): 570.674427 sq. miles (1478.039918 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.521689 sq. miles (3.941157 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 572.196116 sq. miles (1481.981075 sq. km)
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 39.813050 N, 95.562704 W
Headwords:
Brown
Brown, KS
Brown County
Brown County, KS
Brown -- U.S. County in Indiana
Population (2000): 14957
Housing Units (2000): 7163
Land area (2000): 312.264196 sq. miles (808.760520 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 4.357889 sq. miles (11.286879 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 316.622085 sq. miles (820.047399 sq. km)
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 39.228538 N, 86.218138 W
Headwords:
Brown
Brown, IN
Brown County
Brown County, IN
Brown -- U.S. County in Minnesota
Population (2000): 26911
Housing Units (2000): 11163
Land area (2000): 610.863843 sq. miles (1582.130022 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 7.740608 sq. miles (20.048081 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 618.604451 sq. miles (1602.178103 sq. km)
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 44.255312 N, 94.696210 W
Headwords:
Brown
Brown, MN
Brown County
Brown County, MN
Brown -- U.S. County in Nebraska
Population (2000): 3525
Housing Units (2000): 1916
Land area (2000): 1221.279443 sq. miles (3163.099102 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 3.796873 sq. miles (9.833856 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1225.076316 sq. miles (3172.932958 sq. km)
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 42.534188 N, 99.871572 W
Headwords:
Brown
Brown, NE
Brown County
Brown County, NE
Brown -- U.S. County in Ohio
Population (2000): 42285
Housing Units (2000): 17193
Land area (2000): 491.758790 sq. miles (1273.649365 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 3.457361 sq. miles (8.954523 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 495.216151 sq. miles (1282.603888 sq. km)
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 38.926434 N, 83.872440 W
Headwords:
Brown
Brown, OH
Brown County
Brown County, OH
Brown -- U.S. County in Texas
Population (2000): 37674
Housing Units (2000): 17889
Land area (2000): 943.852819 sq. miles (2444.567475 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 13.083689 sq. miles (33.886597 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 956.936508 sq. miles (2478.454072 sq. km)
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 31.772058 N, 98.998706 W
Headwords:
Brown
Brown, TX
Brown County
Brown County, TX
Brown -- U.S. County in South Dakota
Population (2000): 35460
Housing Units (2000): 15861
Land area (2000): 1713.069884 sq. miles (4436.830444 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 18.138538 sq. miles (46.978597 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1731.208422 sq. miles (4483.809041 sq. km)
Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location: 45.538665 N, 98.381992 W
Headwords:
Brown
Brown, SD
Brown County
Brown County, SD
Brown -- U.S. County in Wisconsin
Population (2000): 226778
Housing Units (2000): 90199
Land area (2000): 528.675390 sq. miles (1369.262916 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 86.749594 sq. miles (224.680408 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 615.424984 sq. miles (1593.943324 sq. km)
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 44.493492 N, 88.032769 W
Headwords:
Brown
Brown, WI
Brown County
Brown County, WI
Sandpiper (n.) (Zool.) 【鳥】鷸 Any one of numerous
species of small limicoline game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas,
Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family Tringidae
Note: The most important North American species are the pectoral sandpiper
({Tringa maculata), called also brownback, grass snipe, and jacksnipe; the
red-backed, or black-breasted, sandpiper, or dunlin ({Tringa alpina); the
purple sandpiper ({Tringa maritima: the red-breasted
sandpiper, or knot ({Tringa canutus); the semipalmated sandpiper
({Ereunetes pusillus); the spotted sandpiper, or teeter-tail ({Actitis
macularia); the buff-breasted sandpiper ({Tryngites subruficollis), and
the Bartramian sandpiper, or upland plover. See under
Upland. Among the European species are the dunlin, the knot, the ruff,
the sanderling, and the common sandpiper ({Actitis hypoleucus syn.
Tringoides hypoleucus), called also fiddler, peeper, pleeps,
weet-weet, and summer snipe. Some of the small plovers and tattlers
are also called sandpipers.
Sandpiper (n.) (Zool.) A small lamprey eel; the pride.
Curlew sandpiper. See under Curlew.
Stilt sandpiper. See under Stilt.
Compare: Pride
Pride (n.) (Zool.) A small European lamprey ({Petromyzon branchialis); -- called also prid, and sandpiper.
Sandpiper (n.) Any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers.
Compare: Dowitcher
Dowitcher, (n.) (Zool.) The red-breasted or gray snipe ({Macrorhamphus griseus); -- called also brownback, and grayback.
Dowitcher (n.) Shorebird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe.
Brownback (n.) (Zool.) The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
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 hooked like a woodman's bill, from the back of which projected a spike, and another from the head. -- Grose.
Brownian (a.) Pertaining to Dr. Robert Brown, who first demonstrated (about 1827) the commonness of the motion described below.
Brownian motion, Brownian movement, The peculiar, rapid, vibratory movement exhibited by the microscopic particles of substances when suspended in water or other fluids.
Brownie (n.) An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping. [Scot.]
Brownie (n.) A junior Girl Scout.
Brownie (n.) (Folklore) Fairies that are somewhat mischievous [syn: elf, hob, gremlin, pixie, pixy, brownie, imp].
Brownie (n.) Square or bar of very rich chocolate cake usually with nuts.
Brown (n.) 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.
Brown (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, () 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.
Brown bread, () 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.
Brown (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Browned; p. pr. & vb. n. Browning.] To make brown or dusky.
A trembling twilight o'er welkin moves, Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves. -- Barlow.
Brown (v. t.) To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour.
Brown (v. t.) To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface. -- Ure.
Brown (v. i.) To become brown.
Brown (a.) Of a color similar to that of wood or earth [syn: brown, brownish, chocolate-brown, dark-brown].
Brown (a.) (Of skin) Deeply suntanned [syn: brown, browned].
Brown (n.) An orange of low brightness and saturation [syn: brown, brownness].
Brown (n.) Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858) [syn: Brown, Robert Brown].
Brown (n.) Abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859) [syn: Brown, John Brown].
Brown (n.) A university in Rhode Island [syn: Brown University, Brown].
Brown (v.) Fry in a pan until it changes color; "brown the meat in the pan".
Brown (v.) Make brown in color; "the draught browned the leaves on the trees in the yard" [syn: embrown, brown].
Brown -- U.S. County in Illinois
Population (2000): 6950
Housing Units (2000): 2456
Land area (2000): 305.648958 sq. miles (791.627134 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.590768 sq. miles (4.120069 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 307.239726 sq. miles (795.747203 sq. km)
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 39.950254 N, 90.740237 W
Headwords:
Brown
Brown, IL
Brown County
Brown County, IL
Brown -- U.S. County in Kansas
Population (2000): 10724
Housing Units (2000): 4815
Land area (2000): 570.674427 sq. miles (1478.039918 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.521689 sq. miles (3.941157 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 572.196116 sq. miles (1481.981075 sq. km)
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 39.813050 N, 95.562704 W
Headwords:
Brown
Brown, KS
Brown County
Brown County, KS
Brown -- U.S. County in Indiana
Population (2000): 14957
Housing Units (2000): 7163
Land area (2000): 312.264196 sq. miles (808.760520 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 4.357889 sq. miles (11.286879 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 316.622085 sq. miles (820.047399 sq. km)
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 39.228538 N, 86.218138 W
Headwords:
Brown
Brown, IN
Brown County
Brown County, IN
Brown -- U.S. County in Minnesota
Population (2000): 26911
Housing Units (2000): 11163
Land area (2000): 610.863843 sq. miles (1582.130022 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 7.740608 sq. miles (20.048081 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 618.604451 sq. miles (1602.178103 sq. km)
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 44.255312 N, 94.696210 W
Headwords:
Brown
Brown, MN
Brown County
Brown County, MN
Brown -- U.S. County in Nebraska
Population (2000): 3525
Housing Units (2000): 1916
Land area (2000): 1221.279443 sq. miles (3163.099102 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 3.796873 sq. miles (9.833856 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1225.076316 sq. miles (3172.932958 sq. km)
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 42.534188 N, 99.871572 W
Headwords:
Brown
Brown, NE
Brown County
Brown County, NE
Brown -- U.S. County in Ohio
Population (2000): 42285
Housing Units (2000): 17193
Land area (2000): 491.758790 sq. miles (1273.649365 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 3.457361 sq. miles (8.954523 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 495.216151 sq. miles (1282.603888 sq. km)
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 38.926434 N, 83.872440 W
Headwords:
Brown
Brown, OH
Brown County
Brown County, OH
Brown -- U.S. County in Texas
Population (2000): 37674
Housing Units (2000): 17889
Land area (2000): 943.852819 sq. miles (2444.567475 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 13.083689 sq. miles (33.886597 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 956.936508 sq. miles (2478.454072 sq. km)
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 31.772058 N, 98.998706 W
Headwords:
Brown
Brown, TX
Brown County
Brown County, TX
Brown -- U.S. County in South Dakota
Population (2000): 35460
Housing Units (2000): 15861
Land area (2000): 1713.069884 sq. miles (4436.830444 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 18.138538 sq. miles (46.978597 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1731.208422 sq. miles (4483.809041 sq. km)
Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location: 45.538665 N, 98.381992 W
Headwords:
Brown
Brown, SD
Brown County
Brown County, SD
Brown -- U.S. County in Wisconsin
Population (2000): 226778
Housing Units (2000): 90199
Land area (2000): 528.675390 sq. miles (1369.262916 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 86.749594 sq. miles (224.680408 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 615.424984 sq. miles (1593.943324 sq. km)
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location:
44.493492 N, 88.032769 W
Headwords:
Brown
Brown, WI
Brown County
Brown County, WI
Browning (n.) The act or operation of giving a brown color, as to gun barrels, etc.
Browning (n.) (Masonry) A smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster.
Browning United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926) [syn: Browning, John M. Browning, John Moses Browning].
Browning (n.) English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning noted for his dramatic monologues (1812-1889) [syn: Browning, Robert Browning].
Browning (n.) English poet best remembered for love sonnets written to her husband Robert Browning (1806-1861) [syn: Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning].
Browning (n.) Cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill; "proper toasting should brown both sides of a piece of bread" [syn: toasting, browning].
Browning, MT -- U.S. town in Montana
Population (2000): 1065
Housing Units (2000): 409
Land area (2000): 0.272297 sq. miles (0.705246 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.272297 sq. miles (0.705246 sq. km)
FIPS code: 10375
Located within: Montana (MT), FIPS 30
Location: 48.556917 N, 113.014571 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Browning, MT
Browning
Browning, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000): 130
Housing Units (2000): 63
Land area (2000): 0.310239 sq. miles (0.803515 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.310239 sq. miles (0.803515 sq. km)
FIPS code: 08953
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 40.129321 N, 90.372441 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Browning, IL
Browning
Browning, MO -- U.S. city in Missouri
Population (2000): 317
Housing Units (2000): 177
Land area (2000): 0.524400 sq. miles (1.358189 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.524400 sq. miles (1.358189 sq. km)
FIPS code: 08884
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 40.034934 N, 93.160443 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 64630
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Browning, MO
Browning