Addle-headed (a.) Alt. of Addle-pated |
Beetle-headed (a.) Dull |
Bluff-headed (a.) Built with the stem nearly straight up and down. |
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 |
Buckler-headed (a.) Having a head like a buckler. |
Buffle-headed (a.) Having a large head, like a buffalo |
Clear-headed (a.) Having a clear understanding |
Cool-headed (a.) Having a temper not easily excited |
Dog-headed (a.) Having a head shaped like that of a dog |
Double-headed (a.) Having two heads |
Dunder-headed (a.) Thick-headed |
Feather-headed (a.) Giddy |
Flat-headed (a.) Having a head with a flattened top |
Giddy-headed (a.) Thoughtless |
Gross-headed (a.) Thick-skulled |
Hair-brown (a.) Of a clear tint of brown, resembling brown human hair. It is composed of equal proportions of red and green. |
Hard-headed (a.) Having sound judgment |
Headed (imp. & p. p.) of Head |
Headed (a.) Furnished with a head (commonly as denoting intellectual faculties) |
Headed (a.) Formed into a head |
Heavy-headed (a.) Dull |
Hot-headed (a.) Fiery |
Idle-headed (a.) Foolish |
Idle-headed (a.) Delirious |
Janus-headed (a.) Double-headed. |
Light-headed (a.) Disordered in the head |
Light-headed (a.) Thoughtless |
Mad-headed (a.) Wild |
Muddy-headed (a.) Dull |
Mushroom-headed (a.) Having a cylindrical body with a convex head of larger diameter |
Nail-headed (a.) Having a head like that of a nail |
Nott-headed (a.) Having the hair cut close. |
Nut-brown (a.) Brown as a nut long kept and dried. |
Open-headed (a.) Bareheaded. |
Parrot (n.) In a general sense, any bird of the order Psittaci. |
Parrot (n.) Any species of Psittacus, Chrysotis, Pionus, and other genera of the family Psittacidae, as distinguished from the parrakeets, macaws, and lories. They have a short rounded or even tail, and often a naked space on the cheeks. The gray parrot, or jako (P. erithacus) of Africa (see Jako), and the species of Amazon, or green, parrots (Chrysotis) of America, are examples. Many species, as cage birds, readily learn to imitate sounds, and to repeat words and phrases. |
Parrot (v. t.) To repeat by rote, as a parrot. |
Parrot (v. i.) To chatter like a parrot. |
Parrot's-bill (n.) The glory pea. See under Glory. |
Pig-headed (a.) Having a head like a pig |
Pudding-headed (a.) Stupid. |
Puzzle-headed (a.) Having the head full of confused notions. |
Rattle-headed (a.) Noisy |
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 |
blue-headed vireo Vireo solitarius solitarius | common vireo of northeastern North America with bluish slaty-grey head |
lowland burrowing treefrog northern casque-headed frog Pternohyla fodiens | terrestrial burrowing nocturnal frog of grassy terrain and scrub forests having very hard upper surface of head, of the United States southwest |
bone-headed dinosaur | bipedal herbivorous dinosaurs with bony crowns |
black-headed snake | small secretive ground-living snake, found from central United States to Argentina |
rubber boa tow-headed snake Charina bottae | boa of grasslands and woodlands of western North America, looks and feels like rubber with tail and head of similar shape |
parrot | usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds |
poll poll parrot | a tame parrot |
cockateel cockatiel cockatoo parrot Nymphicus hollandicus | small grey Australian parrot with a yellow crested head |
acanthocephalan spiny-headed worm | any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines |
brown snail Helix aspersa | serious garden pest having a brown shell with paler zigzag markings, nearly cosmopolitan in distribution |
white-headed stilt Himantopus himantopus leucocephalus | stilt of the southwest Pacific including Australia and New Zealand having mostly white plumage but with black wings and nape of neck |
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 |
Brown University Brown | a university in Rhode Island |
gaffsail gaff-headed sail | a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail suspended from a gaff |
brown brownness | an orange of low brightness and saturation |
Vandyke brown | a moderate brown color |
chocolate coffee deep brown umber burnt umber | a medium brown to dark-brown color |
light brown | a brown that is light but unsaturated |
dun greyish brown grayish brown fawn | a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color, she wore dun |
reddish brown sepia burnt sienna Venetian red mahogany | a shade of brown with a tinge of red |
yellowish brown raw sienna buff caramel caramel brown | a medium to dark tan color |
olive brown | a shade of brown tinged with green |
brown study | a state of deep absorption or thoughtfulness |
brown sugar | unrefined or only partly refined sugar |
brown Betty | baked pudding of apples and breadcrumbs |
brown bread Boston brown bread | dark steamed bread made of cornmeal wheat and flour with molasses and soda and milk or water |
dark bread whole wheat bread whole meal bread brown bread | bread made with whole wheat flour |
brown rice | unpolished rice retaining the yellowish-brown outer layer |
brown sauce sauce Espagnole | bouillon or beef stock thickened with butter and flour roux and variously seasoned with herbs or Worcestershire etc. |
Chinese brown sauce brown sauce | a sauce based on soy sauce |
Lyonnaise sauce brown onion sauce | brown sauce with sauteed chopped onions and parsley and dry white wine or vinegar |
brown butter beurre noisette | clarified butter browned slowly and seasoned with vinegar or lemon juice and capers |
Father Brown | a Catholic priest who was the hero of detective stories by G. K. Chesterton |