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noun

Charles Brock·den

[brok-duh

n] , 1771–1810, U.S. novelist.

Clifford ( "Brownie" ) 1930–56, U.S. jazz trumpeter.

Edmund Gerald, Jr ( "Jerry" ) born 1938, U.S. politician: governor of California 1975–83.

Herbert Charles, 1912–2004, U.S. chemist, born in England: Nobel prize 1979.

James Nathaniel ( "Jimmy" ) born 1936, U.S. football player and actor.

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.

Margaret Wise, 1910–52, U.S. author noted for early-childhood books.

Olympia, 1835–1926, U.S. women's-rights activist and Universalist minister: first American woman ordained by a major church.

Robert, 1773–1858, Scottish botanist.

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a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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brown (braʊn)

—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 (ˈwɪt^ən). 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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"I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood."

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