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Brother german: Definition and part of speech

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Brother german

  1. A brother by both the father’s and mother’s side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only.

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.

Brown: Definition and part of speech

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Brown

  1. 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.
  2. superl. Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.
  3. v. t. To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour.
  4. 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.

Brotherhood: Definition and part of speech

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Brotherhood

  1. n. Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind.
  2. n. The state of being brothers or a brother.
  3. n. An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.
  4. n. The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, — especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.

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.

Browning: Definition and part of speech

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Browning

  1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Brown
  2. n. The act or operation of giving a brown color, as to gun barrels, etc.

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.