Bovey coal () A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor |
Brown (superl.) Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow. |
Brown (n.) A dark color inclining to red or yellow, resulting from the mixture of red and black, or of red, black, and yellow |
Brown (v. t.) To make brown or dusky. |
Brown (v. t.) To make brown by scorching slightly |
Brown (v. t.) To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface. |
Brown (v. i.) To become brown. |
Brown bill () A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill. |
Brown thrush () A common American singing bird (Harporhynchus rufus), allied to the mocking bird |
Caking coal () See Coal. |
Canal coal () See Cannel coal. |
Candle coal () See Cannel coal. |
Cannel coal () A kind of mineral coal of a black color, sufficiently hard and solid to be cut and polished. It burns readily, with a clear, yellow flame, and on this account has been used as a substitute for candles. |
Coal (n.) A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance |
Coal (n.) A black, or brownish black, solid, combustible substance, dug from beds or veins in the earth to be used for fuel, and consisting, like charcoal, mainly of carbon, but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a large amount of volatile matter. |
Coal (v. t.) To burn to charcoal |
Coal (v. t.) To mark or delineate with charcoal. |
Coal (v. t.) To supply with coal |
Coal (v. i.) To take in coal |
Coal-black (a.) As black as coal |
Coal-meter (n.) A licensed or official coal measurer in London. See Meter. |
Coal tar () A thick, black, tarry liquid, obtained by the distillation of bituminous coal in the manufacture of illuminating gas |
Coal-whipper (n.) One who raises coal out of the hold of a ship. |
Coal works () A place where coal is dug, including the machinery for raising the coal. |
Day-coal (n.) The upper stratum of coal, as nearest the light or surface. |
Hair-brown (a.) Of a clear tint of brown, resembling brown human hair. It is composed of equal proportions of red and green. |
Horse power () The power which a horse exerts. |
Horse power () A unit of power, used in stating the power required to drive machinery, and in estimating the capabilities of animals or steam engines and other prime movers for doing work. It is the power required for the performance of work at the rate of 33,000 English units of work per minute |
Horse power () A machine worked by a horse, for driving other machinery |
Kennel coal () See Cannel coal. |
Lignite (n.) Mineral coal retaining the texture of the wood from which it was formed, and burning with an empyreumatic odor. It is of more recent origin than the anthracite and bituminous coal of the proper coal series. Called also brown coal, wood coal. |
Nut-brown (a.) Brown as a nut long kept and dried. |
Power (n.) Same as Poor, the fish. |
Power (n.) Ability to act, regarded as latent or inherent |
Power (n.) Ability, regarded as put forth or exerted |
Power (n.) Capacity of undergoing or suffering |
Power (n.) The exercise of a faculty |
Power (n.) The agent exercising an ability to act |
Power (n.) A military or naval force |
Power (n.) A large quantity |
Power (n.) The rate at which mechanical energy is exerted or mechanical work performed, as by an engine or other machine, or an animal, working continuously |
Power (n.) A mechanical agent |
Power (n.) Applied force |
Power (n.) A machine acted upon by an animal, and serving as a motor to drive other machinery |
Power (n.) The product arising from the multiplication of a number into itself |
Power (n.) Mental or moral ability to act |
Power (n.) The degree to which a lens, mirror, or any optical instrument, magnifies |
Power (n.) An authority enabling a person to dispose of an interest vested either in himself or in another person |
Power (n.) Hence, vested authority to act in a given case |
Sea coal () Coal brought by sea |
accession rise to power | the act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne), Elizabeth's accession in |
power dive | a dive of an airplane that is accelerated both by gravity and by the power of the engine |
power play | (ice hockey) a play in which one team has a numerical advantage over the other as a result of penalties, the team was unable to capitalize on the power play |
power play | a play in which there is a concentration of players in one location on the field of play, they used a power play to return the kickoff |
power walking | a form of cardiopulmonary exercise consisting of rapid walking accompanied by vigorous swinging of the arms |
power play squeeze play squeeze | an aggressive attempt to compel acquiescence by the concentration or manipulation of power, she laughed at this sexual power play and walked away |
power trip | (slang) a self-aggrandizing action undertaken simply for the pleasure of exercising control over other people |
Stations Stations of the Cross | (Roman Catholic Church) a devotion consisting of fourteen prayers said before a series of fourteen pictures or carvings representing successive incidents during Jesus' passage from Pilate's house to his crucifixion at Calvary |
brown algae | algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown and yellow pigments |
brown thrasher brown thrush Toxostoma rufums | common large songbird of eastern United States having reddish-brown plumage |
brown creeper American creeper Certhia americana | a common creeper in North America with a downurved bill |
brown snail Helix aspersa | serious garden pest having a brown shell with paler zigzag markings, nearly cosmopolitan in distribution |
brown hyena strand wolf Hyaena brunnea | of southern Africa |
brown bear bruin Ursus arctos | large ferocious bear of Eurasia |
Alaskan brown bear Kodiak bear Kodiak Ursus middendorffi Ursus arctos middendorffi | brown bear of coastal Alaska and British Columbia |
brown bat | any of numerous medium to small insectivorous bats found worldwide in caves and trees and buildings |
little brown bat little brown myotis Myotis leucifugus | the small common North American bat, widely distributed |
big brown bat Eptesicus fuscus | rather large North American brown bat, widely distributed |
serotine European brown bat Eptesicus serotinus | common brown bat of Europe |
brown soft scale Coccus hesperidum | pest on citrus trees |
brown lacewing hemerobiid hemerobiid fly | small darkolored lacewing fly |
browntail brown-tail moth Euproctis phaeorrhoea | small brown and white European moth introduced into eastern United States, pest of various shade and fruit trees |
brown rat Norway rat Rattus norvegicus | common domestic rat, serious pest worldwide |
brown lemming Lemmus trimucronatus | of northwestern Canada and Alaska |
Brown Swiss | large hardy brown breed of dairy cattle from Switzerland |
brown bullhead | freshwater catfish of eastern United States |
brown trout salmon trout Salmo trutta | speckled trout of European rivers, introduced in North America |
air base air station | a base for military aircraft |
beach wagon station wagon wagon estate car beach waggon station waggon waggon | a car that has a long body and rear door with space behind rear seat |
booster booster amplifier booster station relay link relay station relay transmitter | an amplifier for restoring the strength of a transmitted signal |
broadcasting station broadcast station | a station equipped to broadcast radio or television programs |
Brown University Brown | a university in Rhode Island |
bus terminal bus depot bus station coach station | a terminal that serves bus passengers |
coal car | freight car with fixed sides and no roof, for transporting coal |
coal chute | a chute for coal |
coal house | a shed for storing coal |
coal mine coalpit | a mine where coal is dug from the ground |
coal shovel | a hand shovel for shoveling coal |
dressing station aid station | (military) a station located near a combat area for giving first aid to the wounded |
electric meter power meter | a meter for measuring the amount of electric power used |
fire station firehouse | a station housing fire apparatus and firemen |
fire tongs coal tongs | tongs for taking hold of burning coals |
first-aid station | a station providing emergency care or treatment before regular medical aid can be obtained |
gasoline station gas station filling station petrol station | a service station that sells gasoline |
gearing gear geartrain power train train | wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed, the fool got his tie caught in the geartrain |
hammer power hammer | a power tool for drilling rocks |
lookout observation tower lookout station observatory | a structure commanding a wide view of its surroundings |
naval installation shore station | military installation servicing naval forces |
observation station | a station set up for making observations of something |
pay-phone pay-station | a coin-operated telephone |