bobby brown
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dən2.
Clifford ( "Brownie" ) 1930–56, U.S. jazz trumpeter.
3.
Edmund Gerald, Jr ( "Jerry" ) born 1938, U.S. politician: governor of California 1975–83.
4.
Herbert Charles, 1912–2004, U.S. chemist, born in England: Nobel prize 1979.
5.
James Nathaniel ( "Jimmy" ) born 1936, U.S. football player and actor.
6.
John ( "Old Brown of Osawatomie" ) 1800–59, U.S. abolitionist: leader of the attack at Harpers Ferry, where he was captured, tried for treason, and hanged.
7.
Margaret Wise, 1910–52, U.S. author noted for early-childhood books.
8.
Olympia, 1835–1926, U.S. women's-rights activist and Universalist minister: first American woman ordained by a major church.
9.
Robert, 1773–1858, Scottish botanist.
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| —n | |
| 1. | any of various colours, such as those of wood or earth, produced by low intensity light in the wavelength range 620--585 nanometres |
| 2. | a dye or pigment producing these colours |
| 3. | brown cloth or clothing: dressed in brown |
| 4. | any of numerous mostly reddish-brown butterflies of the genera Maniola, Lasiommata, etc, such as M. jurtina (meadow brown): family Satyridae |
| —adj | |
| 5. | of the colour brown |
| 6. | (of bread) made from a flour that has not been bleached or bolted, such as wheatmeal or wholemeal flour |
| 7. | deeply tanned or sunburnt |
| —vb | |
| 8. | to make (esp food as a result of cooking) brown or (esp of food) to become brown |
| [Old English brūn; related to Old Norse brūnn, Old High German brūn, Greek phrunos toad, Sanskrit babhru reddish-brown] | |
| 'brownish | |
| —adj | |
| 'browny | |
| —adj | |
| 'brownness | |
| —n | |
| Brown (braʊn) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | Sir Arthur Whitten (ˈwɪtən). 1886--1948, British aviator who with J.W. Alcock made the first flight across the Atlantic (1919) |
| 2. | Ford Madox. 1821--93, British painter, associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His paintings include The Last of England (1865) and Work (1865) |
| 3. | George (Alfred), Lord George-Brown. 1914--85, British Labour politician; vice-chairman and deputy leader of the Labour party (1960--70); foreign secretary 1966--68 |
| 4. | George Mackay. 1921--96, Scottish poet, novelist, and short-story writer. His works, which include the novels Greenvoe (1972) and Magnus (1973), reflect the history and culture of Orkney |
| 5. | (James) Gordon. born 1951, British Labour politician; Chancellor of the Exchequer (1997--2007); prime minister from 2007 |
| 6. | Herbert Charles. 1912--2004, US chemist, who worked on the compounds of boron. Nobel prize for chemistry 1979 |
| 7. | James. 1933--2006, US soul singer and songwriter, noted for his dynamic stage performances and for his commitment to Black rights |
| 8. | John. 1800--59, US abolitionist leader, hanged after leading an unsuccessful rebellion of slaves at Harper's Ferry, Virginia |
| 9. | Lancelot, called Capability Brown. 1716--83, British landscape gardener |
| 10. | Michael (Stuart). born 1941, US physician: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1985) for work on cholesterol |
| 11. | Robert. 1773--1858, Scottish botanist who was the first to observe the Brownian movement in fluids |
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Word Origin & History
brown
O.E. brun "dark, dusky," only developing a definite color sense 13c., from P.Gmc. *brunaz (cf. O.N. brunn, Dan. brun, O.Fris., O.H.G. brun, Du. bruin, Ger. braun), from PIE *bher- (3) "shining, brown" (cf. Lith. beras "brown"), related to *bheros "dark animal" (cf.
beaver, bear (n.), and Gk. phrynos "toad," lit. "the brown animal"). The O.E. word also had a sense of "brightness, shining," now preserved only in burnish. The Gmc. word was adopted into Romanic (cf. M.L. brunus, It., Sp. bruno, Fr. brun). Brown-bag (v.) "to bring lunch or liquor in a brown paper bag" is from 1960s. Brown Bess, slang name for old British Army flintlock musket, first recorded 1785.
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Medical Dictionary
Brown (broun), Michael. Born 1941.
American geneticist. He shared a 1985 Nobel Prize for discoveries related to cholesterol metabolism.
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