Crossword clues for browner
browner
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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. 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.-
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.
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: brown)
Wikipedia
Browner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Brandon Browner (born 1984), American football cornerback
- Carol Browner (born 1955), American environmentalist
- Joey Browner (born 1960), American football safety
- Keith Browner (born 1962), American football defensive end
- Ross Browner (born 1954), American football defensive end
Usage examples of "browner".
But it was her mother, Tweedy Browner, who showed up in the arrivals area, a small dusty third-world place in a state of halted renovation.
When we did, after the melancholy epochs of Janet Savory and Tweedy Browner, things proceeded to fall apart.
Joe is going to announce tomorrow that Jim Browner is his choice for VP.
Oaks are often much browner, but the moisture in the atmosphere keeps the saps in the leaves.
Leaner, browner, a little too stern, perhaps, about the mouth and eyes, a gypsy of greater energy and resource than when he had struck recklessly into the Glades with the music-machine he had since exchanged for an Indian wagon, Philip camped and smoked and hunted with the skill and gravity of an Indian.
All day yesterday he had watched those nuts turning softly browner and browner and, come sundown, had judged them just one day short of perfect.
Withered arms reached up towards the sky, then thickened, growing stronger and browner by the moment.
At the same time, EPA Chief Carol Browner says the feds want Big Sugar to fork over a bigger share.
Ty was browner, leaner, and the mustache she had teased him about growing fitted the rough vigor of his features.
Her eyes were browner than the boots, and she lowered them as she stepped past him into the room.
She looks at his rolled-up shirt sleeve, white or a pale blue, then his wrist, the browner skin of his hand.
My daughter Bee, from my marriage to Tweedy Browner, was just starting seventh grade in a Washington suburb and was having trouble readjusting to life in the States after two years in South Korea.
So Jack was saddled, and went plodding, scrambling, and wandering into all manner of pleasant places, always bringing home a stronger, browner rider than he carried away.
Each day the vegetation was browner and a morning came when Lake could see no green wherever he looked.
Her skin was the color of lumber, say pine or spruce, washed with a tincture of creosote and slightly aged out of doors: browner than white and lighter than, say, beans of coffee in their burlap sacks.