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adv. [ Pref. a- + row. ] In a row, line, or rank; successively; in order. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

And twenty, rank in rank, they rode arow. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. arewe, AS. arewe, earh; akin to Icel. ör, örvar, Goth. arhwazna, and perh. L. arcus bow. Cf. Arc. ] A missile weapon of offense, slender, pointed, and usually feathered and barbed, to be shot from a bow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Broad arrow. (a) An arrow with a broad head. (b) A mark placed upon British ordnance and government stores, which bears a rude resemblance to a broad arrowhead. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) An herbaceous grasslike plant (Triglochin palustre, and other species) with pods opening so as to suggest barbed arrowheads. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the pointed head or striking tip of an arrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) An aquatic plant of the genus Sagittaria, esp. Sagittaria sagittifolia, -- named from the shape of the leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Shaped like the head of an arrow; cuneiform. [ 1913 Webster ]

Arrowheaded characters, characters the elements of which consist of strokes resembling arrowheads, nailheads, or wedges; -- hence called also nail-headed, wedge-formed, cuneiform, or cuneatic characters; the oldest written characters used in the country about the Tigris and Euphrates, and subsequently in Persia, and abounding among the ruins of Persepolis, Nineveh, and Babylon. See Cuneiform. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Bot.) A white-flowered west Indian plant of the genus Maranta, esp. Maranta arundinacea, now cultivated in many hot countries. Its root yields arrowroot starch. It said that the Indians used the roots to neutralize the venom in wounds made by poisoned arrows.
Syn. -- arrowroot, American arrowroot, obedience plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A nutritive starch obtained from the rootstocks of Maranta arundinacea, and used as food, esp. for children an invalids; also, a similar starch obtained from other plants, as various species of Maranta and Curcuma. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. (Botany) like an arrow head without flaring base lobes; -- of a leaf shape.
Syn. -- sagittate, sagittiform. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. A shrub (Viburnum dentatum) growing in damp woods and thickets; -- so called from the long, straight, slender shoots. Also, any of several other similar small trees whose straight shoots were used for making arrows. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. any plant (Viburnum recognitum) closely related to southern arrow wood; eastern U.S. Maine to Ohio and Georgia.
Syn. -- arrow wood. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) A peculiar transparent worm of the genus Sagitta, living at the surface of the sea. See Sagitta. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Consisting of arrows. [ 1913 Webster ]

How quick they wheeled, and flying, behind them shot
Sharp sleet of arrowy showers. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Formed or moving like, or in any respect resembling, an arrow; swift; darting; piercing. “His arrowy tongue.” Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

By the blue rushing of the arrowy Rhone. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

With arrowy vitalities, vivacities, and ingenuities. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. barow, fr. AS. beran to bear. See Bear to support, and cf. Bier. ] 1. A support having handles, and with or without a wheel, on which heavy or bulky things can be transported by hand. See Handbarrow, and Wheelbarrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Salt Works) A wicker case, in which salt is put to drain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. barow, bargh, AS. bearg, bearh; akin to Icel. börgr, OHG. barh, barug, G. barch. √95. ] A hog, esp. a male hog castrated. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. bergh, AS. beorg, beorh, hill, sepulchral mound; akin to G. berg mountain, Goth. bairgahei hill, hilly country, and perh. to Skr. b&rsdot_;hant high, OIr. brigh mountain. Cf. Berg, Berry a mound, and Borough an incorporated town. ] 1. A large mound of earth or stones over the remains of the dead; a tumulus. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mining) A heap of rubbish, attle, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1593. [ 1913 Webster ]

An overhanging brow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. bitelbrowed; cf. OE. bitel, adj., sharp, projecting, n., a beetle. See Beetle an insect. ] Having prominent, overhanging brows; hence, lowering or sullen. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The earlier meaning was, “Having bushy or overhanging eyebrows.” [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. of Bestrew. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding. Shak. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Borrowed p. pr. & vb. n. Borrowing. ] [ OE. borwen, AS. borgian, fr. borg, borh, pledge; akin to D. borg, G. borg; prob. fr. root of AS. beorgan to protect. &unr_;95. See 1st Borough. ] 1. To receive from another as a loan, with the implied or expressed intention of returning the identical article or its equivalent in kind; -- the opposite of lend. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arith.) To take (one or more) from the next higher denomination in order to add it to the next lower; -- a term of subtraction when the figure of the subtrahend is larger than the corresponding one of the minuend. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rites borrowed from the ancients. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is not hard for any man, who hath a Bible in his hands, to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To feign or counterfeit. “Borrowed hair.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

The borrowed majesty of England. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To receive; to take; to derive. [ 1913 Webster ]

Any drop thou borrowedst from thy mother. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To borrow trouble, to be needlessly troubled; to be overapprehensive. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Ye may retain as borrows my two priests. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of borrowing. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Of your royal presence I'll adventure
The borrow of a week. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who borrows. [ 1913 Webster ]

Neither a borrower nor a lender be. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Shamelessly impudent. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. browe, bruwe, AS. brū; akin to AS. br&aemacr_;w, breáw, eyelid, OFries. brē, D. braauw, Icel. brā, brūn, OHG. prāwa, G. braue, OSlav. brŭv&ibreve_;, Russ. brove, Ir. brai, Ir. & Gael. abhra, Armor. abrant, Gr. 'ofry`s, Skr. bhrū. Cf. Bray a bank, Bridge. ] 1. The prominent ridge over the eye, with the hair that covers it, forming an arch above the orbit. [ 1913 Webster ]

And his arched brow, pulled o'er his eyes,
With solemn proof proclaims him wise. Churchill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The hair that covers the brow (ridge over the eyes); the eyebrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

'T is not your inky brows, your brack silk hair. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The forehead; as, a feverish brow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The general air of the countenance. [ 1913 Webster ]

To whom thus Satan with contemptuous brow. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

He told them with a masterly brow. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The edge or projecting upper part of a steep place; as, the brow of a precipice; the brow of a hill. [ 1913 Webster ]

To bend the brow,
To knit the brows, to frown; to scowl. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To bound to limit; to be at, or form, the edge of. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Tending my flocks hard by i' the hilly crofts
That brow this bottom glade. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. any of several herbs of the genus Browallia cultivated for their blue or violet or white flowers.
Syn. -- bush violet. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. Browbeat; p. p. Browbeaten p. pr. & vb. n. Browbeating. ] To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; to abash or disconcert by impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully; as, to browbeat witnesses. [ 1913 Webster ]

My grandfather was not a man to be browbeaten. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of bearing down, abashing, or disconcerting, with stern looks, supercilious manners, or confident assertions. [ 1913 Webster ]

The imperious browbeatings and scorn of great men. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Crowned; having the head encircled as with a diadem. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Embroidery. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Of goldsmithrye, of browdyng, and of steel. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having (such) a brow; -- used in composition; as, dark-browed, stern-browed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without shame. L. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Browner superl. Brownest. ] [ OE. brun, broun, AS. br&unr_;n; akin to D. bruin, OHG. br&unr_;n, Icel. br&unr_;nn, Sw. brun, Dan. bruun, G. braun, Lith. brunas, Skr. babhru. √93, 253. Cf. Bruin, Beaver, Burnish, Brunette. ] Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cheeks brown as the oak leaves. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Brown Bess, the old regulation flintlock smoothbore musket, with bronzed barrel, formerly used in the British army. --
Brown bread (a) Dark colored bread; esp. a kind made of unbolted wheat flour, sometimes called in the United States Graham bread. “He would mouth with a beggar though she smelt brown bread and garlic.” Shak. (b) Dark colored bread made of rye meal and Indian meal, or of wheat and rye or Indian; rye and Indian bread. [ U.S. ] --
Brown coal, wood coal. See Lignite. --
Brown hematite or
Brown iron ore (Min.), the hydrous iron oxide, limonite, which has a brown streak. See Limonite. --
Brown holland. See under Holland. --
Brown paper, dark colored paper, esp. coarse wrapping paper, made of unbleached materials. --
Brown spar (Min.), a ferruginous variety of dolomite, in part identical with ankerite. --
Brown stone. See Brownstone. --
Brown stout, a strong kind of porter or malt liquor. --
Brown study, a state of mental abstraction or serious reverie. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Browned p. pr. & vb. n. Browning. ] 1. To make brown or dusky. [ 1913 Webster ]

A trembling twilight o'er welkin moves,
Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves. Barlow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become brown. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Brown + bill cutting tool. ] A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill. [ 1913 Webster ]

Many time, but for a sallet, my brainpan had been cleft with a brown bill. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The black, or as it is sometimes called, the brown bill, was a kind of halberd, the cutting part hooked like a woodman's bill, from the back of which projected a spike, and another from the head. Grose. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having a tan color from exposure to the sun; -- of skin color.
Syn. -- suntanned, tanned. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Pertaining to Dr. Robert Brown, who first demonstrated (about 1827) the commonness of the motion described below. [ 1913 Webster ]

Brownian motion,
Brownian movement, the peculiar, rapid, vibratory movement exhibited by the microscopic particles of substances when suspended in water or other fluids. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ So called from its supposed tawny or swarthy color. ] An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or operation of giving a brown color, as to gun barrels, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Masonry) A smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat brown. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) The doctrines of the Brunonian system of medicine. See Brunonian. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) The views or teachings of Robert Brown of the Brownists. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Robert Brown, of England, in the 16th century, who taught that every church is complete and independent in itself when organized, and consists of members meeting in one place, having full power to elect and depose its officers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) One who advocates the Brunonian system of medicine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being brown. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now like I brown (O lovely brown thy hair);
Only in brownness beauty dwelleth there. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]