Brownism (brounizm)

[ However, I must, without fear of offending, expre my fear, that the leven of that rigid thing they call Brown ism has prevailed sometimes a little of the furthest in the administrations of this pious people. C. Mather, Mag. Chris., i. 3. The barks of trees thou browsedst. Shak . , A. and C., i. 4. bruise bruck ), IMG:content-2649.png:[graphic][ocr errors] II. in trans . 1. To graze; specifically, to feed European Grain-Bruchus (B.granarius) (Small figure shows natural 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 cartilaginous 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. spelled browzer. tion a list. IMG:content-2650.png:[blocks in formation] About the time of Govern our Bradford's death, religion itself had like to have died in that colony, through a libertine and Brown i stick spirit then prevailing among the people, and a strong disposition to discountenance the gospel-ministry, by setting up the "gifts of private brethren" in opposition thereto. C. Mather , Mag. Chris., ii. 2. brown-leemer, brown-leeming (broun'lēmer, -ming), n. A ripe brown nut. Also called brown shuller. [Prov. Eng.]