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• brown bess

  A soldier's firelock. To hug brown Bess; to carry a firelock, or serve as a private soldier. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• bess, or betty

  A small instrument used by house-breakers to force open doors. Bring bess and glym; bring the instru...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Brown

  ·vi To become brown. II. Brown ·vt To make brown or dusky. III. Brown ·vt To make brown by scorchi...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• taw-bess

  a slatternly woman. North. Perhaps a corruption of TALL-BESS. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• Brown bill

  ·- A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. ·see 4th Bill. ...

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• Brown race

  ·add. ·- The Malay or Polynesian race; — loosely so called. ...

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• Brown thrush

  ·- A common American singing bird (Harporhynchus rufus), allied to the mocking bird; — also called ...

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• Cassel brown

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Cassel earth. ...

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• Hair-brown

  ·adj Of a clear tint of brown, resembling brown human hair. It is composed of equal proportions of r...

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• Nut-brown

  ·adj Brown as a nut long kept and dried. ...

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• Seal-brown

  ·adj Of a rich dark brown color, like the fur of the fur seal after it is dyed. ...

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• Whity-brown

  ·adj Of a color between white and brown. ...

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• Brown, Thomas

  (1778-1820) Metaphysician, s. of the Rev. Samuel B., minister of Kirkinabreck, practised for some t...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Brown, Tom

  (1663-1704) Satirist, was ed. at Oxf., and there composed the famous epigram on Dr. Fell. He was fo...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• brown george

  An ammunition loaf, A wig without powder; similar to the undress wig worn by his majesty. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• brown madam, or miss brown

  The monosyllable. ...

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• brown study

  Said of one absent, in a reverie, or thoughtful. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• brown snake

  n. See under snake. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• brown-tail

  n. bird-name for the TasmanianTit. See Tit. 1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol. iii, pl. 54...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• brown study

  Deep thought; absence of mind. "He is in a brown study," i. e. in deep thought, or intent upon his b...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• brown thrasher

  (Ferruginous thrush. Audubon Ornith.) The popular name of the brown thrush. It is also called the gr...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• done brown

  Thoroughly, effectually cheated, bamboozled. Of recent origin. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• brown bread

  For RAVEL-BREAD, see Cowel's Interpreter in voce PANIS. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• brown bill

  The old weapon of the English infantry: hence, perhaps the expression "Brown Bess" for a musket. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• brown george

  A hard and coarse biscuit. ...

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• brown janet

  A cant phrase for a knapsack. ...

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• Brown, Charles Brockden

  (1771-1810) Novelist, b. in Philadelphia, belonged to a Quaker family, became a lawyer, but exchang...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Brown, George Douglas

  (1869-1902) Novelist, wrote The House with the Green Shutters, which gives a strongly outlined pict...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Brown, Dr. John

  (1810-1882) Physician and essayist, s. of John B., D.D., a distinguished dissenting minister in Edi...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Brown, Thomas Edward

  (1830-1897) Poet, b. at Douglas, Isle of Man, s. of a clergyman, and ed. there and at Oxf., entered...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Brown, Peter Hume

  LL.D. (b. 1850) Historian. George Buchanan, Humanist and Reformer (1890), Early Travellers in Scot...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• brown tree-lizard

  n. of New Zealand, Naultinus pacificus. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• whity-brown bread

  See ravel-bread before. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• whity-brown paper

  See ravel-bread before. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• brown-paper warrant

  See warrant. ...

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• Brown Bear Alley or Court

  North out of Upper East Smithfield, at No. 1, in the parish of St. Botolph, Aldgate (L.C.C. List, 19...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.