brown coal (brounkol)

The variety of coal more commonly named lignite. See coal and lignite. IMG:content-2611.png:[graphic] IMG:content-2612.png:[blocks in formation] Brown i an Brunonian.-Brown i an movement, a rapid oscillatory motion often observed in very minute particles suspended in water or other liquid, as when carmine or gamboge is rubbed up in water, and first described by Robert Brown (1757-1831), a Scotch botanist and agriculturist. It is a purely physical phenomenon, not vital, and is probably explained by the fact that the particles are in very delicate equilibrium, and hence extremely sensitive to the slightest change of temperature. Also and originally brownie (brou'ni), n. [Sc., dim. of brown: so called from their supposed color.] In Scotland, a spirit supposed to haunt houses, particularly farm-houses. The brownie was believed to be very useful to the family, particularly if treated well by them, and to the servants, for whom while they slept he was wont to do many pieces of drudgery. In appearance the brownie was said to be meager, shaggy, and wild. It would be easy to trace the belief in brownies the lar, or hearth spirit of the ancients. to 698 The whiles their gotes upon the brouzes fedd. Spenser, F. Q., III. x. 45. Up hither drive thy goats, and play by me: This hill has browse for them, and shade for thee. Dryden, tr. of Ovid's Meta morph., i. 943. The deer leave the mountains and come to the plains below to feed on the browse of the birch. Sportsman's Gazetteer , p. 63. browsel (brouz), v.; pret. and pp. browsed , ppr. browsing. [Also browze , early mod. E. also brouse , brouze , brooze , appar. for * broust , brouter (cf. E. dial. brut , browse) = Pr. brostar , nibble off the buds, sprouts, and bark of plants, browse, broust , a sprout, shoot, bud: see browse1 , n.] I. trans . 1. To feed on; pasture on; graze: said of cattle, deer, etc. Elysian lawns Browsed by none but Dian's fawns. Keats , Ode. The fields between Are dewy-fresh, browsed by deep-udder'd kine. Tennyson, Gardener's Daughter. the proce of darkening the polished surfaces of gun barrels and other metallic objects. Chlorid or butter of antimony, called bronzing - salt, is used in the proce . 2. A preparation of sugar, port wine, spices, etc., for coloring and flavoring meat and made dishes. IMG:content-2613.png:[blocks in formation] The barks of trees thou browsedst. Shak . , A. and C., i. 4. bruise bruck), IMG:content-2614.png:[graphic] on the tender shoots, branches, or bark of shrubs and trees: said of herbivorous animals. Such like sort of fruit, which those animals brooz'd upon. Oldys, Life of Raleigh. The full lips, the rough tongue, the corrugated cartila- ginous palate, the broad cutting teeth of the ox, the deer, the horse, and the sheep, qualify this tribe for browsing upon their pasture. Paley , Nat. Theol., ii. 2. To feed: said of human beings. [Rare.] There is cold meat i' the cave; we'll browse on that. Shak., Cymbeline, iii. 6.