browband (brouband)

1. A band or fillet worn round the brow.-2. In saddlery, a band of a bridle, headstall, or halter, which pa es in front of the horse's forehead, and has loops at its ends through which pa the cheek-straps. browbeat (brou bēt), v. t.; pret. browbeat, pp. browbeaten, ppr. browbeating. [ dence. He [Jeffreys] soon found that it was not quite so easy to browbeat the proud and powerful barons of England in their own hall, as to intimidate barristers whose bread depended on his favor, or prisoners whose necks were at his mercy. Mr. Necker Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vi. was browbeaten and intimidated. Jefferson, Correspondence, II. 485. =Syn. To overbear, insult, bully, hector. browbeater (brouʼbē"ter), n. One who brow Brown i an alcohol, and acids, and can be used in dyeing. - Antwerp brown, a color used by artists, made by mixing asphaltum with a drying-oil; bitumen.- Archil brown, a coal-tar color used in dyeing. - Bismarck brown. Same as phenylene brown.- Caledonia brown, a pigment used by artists in oil-painting. It is a native earth of England, and is of an orange ru et-brown color. - Canelle-brown. Same as phenylene brown. - Cappagh brown, a pigment used by artists in oil-painting, made from a species of bog-earth containing manganese, found near Cappagh in Ireland.-Ca el brown, a pigment very similar to Vandyke brown (which see, below). - Chestnut-brown, in coal-tar colors, a kind of maroon (which see). It can be dyed on silk, cotton, and wool.- Cinnamon-brown. Same as phenylene brown. - Fast brown, a coal-tar color used in dyeing, belonging to the oxy-azo group. - Grenate brown, pota ium isopurpurate, prepared by the action of pota ium cyanide on picric acid. It forms brownish red crystalline scales, which are green by reflected light. It is soluble in hot water and alcohol, giving a very deep violet-red color. When dry it explodes very readily, and is therefore kept in the form of a paste, to which glycerin is added in order to keep it moist. - Havana brown, a coal-tar color similar to phenyl brown, used to produce on wool brown colors fast to the light. Ivory-brown, a pigment the same as bone-brown, except that ivory is as phenyl substituted for bone. - Leather-brown. Same as brown.-Madder-brown, a brown dye derived from catechu and worked with madder colors. - Manchester brown. Same as phenylene brown. - Manganese brown, a color produced in dyeing by pa ing the cotton, impregnated with manganous chlorid, through a mixture of sodium hypochlorite and caustic soda. - Mars brown, an artists' pigment, prepared by calcining a mixture of sulphate of iron, alum, and potash. Its color varies through brown, yellow, and red, according to the heat employed in calcining. It may be termed an artificial ocher. - Phenyl brown, a coal-tar color used in dyeing. Its composition is complex and unknown. It is prepared by treating phenol with a mixture of sulphuric and nitric acid, and is IMG:content-2610.png:[blocks in formation] [Prov. Eng.] -Phenylene brown, a coal-tar color used in dyeing. It is the hydro chlorid of tri amido azobenzene, and is used on wool, cotton, and leather. Also called Bismarck brown, canelle-brown, cinnamon -brown, Manchester brown.Pru ian brown, a pigment used by artists, prepared by calcining an aluminous Pru ian blue, forming a compound of sesquioxid of iron and alumina. It is orange brown, and resembles burnt sienna, but is not so rich in tone.-Purple brown, a pigment composed of oxid of iron. It is sometimes called maroon oxid. Resorcin brown, a coal-tar color used in dyeing, obtained by combining a diazo-compound with resorcin in the ordinary way, and acting on the azo-compound formed with some other diazo-compound. - Small brown, a variety of marbled paper in which the design consists of small round spots or shells. - Spanish brown, an inferior pigment consisting of a highly adulterated dark oxid of iron. It So browle was this here tick. L. Add is on, Life of Mahomet, p. 84. masons to color mortar.- Spirit-brown, in dyeing, a color obtained by treating material dyed yellow from bark with peach wood, logwood, and alum. - Vandyke brown, an important brown pigment used both by artists and house-painters. It is a species of peat or lignite, of a very dark, semi-transparent, reddish-brown color.- Verona brown, a pigment used by artists in oil-painting. It is a calcined ferruginous earth, of a reddish-brown tone. brown (broun), v. [ME. brounen, Broun he was, and lene, and rough of heer, more than a-nother man. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 405. Long fellow . Cheeks brown as the oak-leaves. Brown atrophy, bread, holland, etc. See the nouns. - Brown hematite, brown iron ore. Same as limo- nite.-Brown madder. See madder.- Brown mix- ture, a cough-mixture containing camphorated tincture of opium, wine of antimony, spirit of nitrous ether, and other le important ingredients; the mistura glycyrrhizæ com- posit a of the pharmacopeia. - Brown ocher. See ocher . -Brown pink, an artists' pigment made from Avignon berries ( Rhamnus infector i us ), or, better, from quercitron- bark, as this latter is not so fugitive. It is sometimes called stil de grain. - Brown-red game, a variety of the game-fowl in which the hackle and saddle-feathers of the cock are bright-red, shading off to lemon-yellow, finely striped with black, the back and wing-bows rich-red, the primaries, secondaries, and wing-coverts or bars and tail black, the breast and lower parts of the body black, the feathers having brown shafts and a slight lacing of the same color. The hen is plain black, with hackle-feathers edged with yellow. - Brown study, a state of mental ab- str action or meditation; a reverie. (Often with a hyphen.] Faith, this brown study suits not with your black, Your habit and your thoughts are of two colours. B. Jonson, Case is Altered, iii. 3. My companion approached and startled him from his fit of brown -study. Irving. To do (a person) brown, to deceive him; take him in. [Colloq.]-To do up brown, to do thoroughly. [Colloq.] II. n. 1. A dark color inclined to red or yellow. It may be obtained by mixing red, black, and yellow.-2. A halfpenny. [English slang.) Alizarin brown, alizarin red changed to a brown by mix- ing ferrocyanide of potash with the color, which is decom- posed in steaming and yields Pru ian blue. Aniline brown, a brown pigment obtained by heating a mixture of aniline violet or aniline blue with hydro chlorate of aniline Tending my flocks hard by i' the hilly crofts, That brow this bottom-glade, Milton , Comus, 1. 532. becomes brown in color. This brown is soluble in water, to 240°, and keeping it at this temperature till the mixture II. trans. To make brown or dusky. to heat, as of meat, bread, etc., to that of a fire in roasting or toasting, or of the skin to that of the sun. (b) To give a brown luster to (articles of iron, as gun-barrels, etc.), by applying certain preparations. brown back (broun'bak), n. 1. A name of the red-breasted snipe, Macrorhamphus grise us.— 2. A name of the great marbled godwit, Limo sa fedoa.