Brown: Definition and part of speech

Brown

n. A dark color inclining to red or yellow, resulting from the mixture of red and black, or of red, black, and yellow; a tawny, dusky hue.
superl. Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.
v. t. To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour.
v. t. To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

n. A plant (Veronica Beccabunga), with flowers, usually blue, in axillary racemes. The American species is V. Americana.

n. A small white-flowered herb (Samolus Valerandi) found usually in wet places; water pimpernel.

v. t. See Bream.
n. A plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep with when bound together; esp., the Cytisus scoparius of Western Europe, which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular branches, minute leaves, and large yellow flowers.
n. An implement for sweeping floors, etc., commonly made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; — so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom.

A variety of Sorghum vulgare, having a joined stem, like maize, rising to the height of eight or ten feet, and bearing its seeds on a panicle with long branches, of which brooms are made.