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noun
noun
- A medium-brown color.
- An old bottle of spirits that has been kept for a long time.
- (military, slang) A supply petty officer.
- (possibly only in the plural) A clump of dust; a dust bunny.
- A migrant farmer from the dustbowl.
- (informal) A miller (from the image of millers being covered in flour dust).
- A dustman.
- A recording of music from another era, especially R&B; an oldie.
- A person of mixed race who has a swarthy complexion.
- An old person, especially one who is unwilling to change with the times.
- (rare) A duststorm.
adj
- Covered with dust.
- (figurative) Old; outdated; stuffily traditional.
- Grey or greyish.
- Powdery and resembling dust.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) Ugly, disgusting (a general term of abuse).
- (British, slang, chiefly in negative constructions) Ugly, unwell, inadequate, bad.
- covered with a layer of dust
- lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
adj
noun
- any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
- a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color
- East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber
- large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces
- any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis
- Members of genus Oxalis or family Oxalidaceae, woodsorrels.
- A drink, consumed especially in the Caribbean around Christmas, made from the flowers of Hibiscus sabdariffa: hibiscus tea.
- Any of various plants with acidic leaves of the genus Rumex, especially
- The roselle, Hibiscus sabdariffa.
- Rumex acetosa (common sorrel, garden sorrel), sometimes used as a salad vegetable.
- A brown colour, with a tint of red.
noun
- a medium brown to dark-brown color
- a food made from roasted ground cacao beans
- a beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot
- (countable) A single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate.
- (uncountable) Blackness.
- (chiefly uncountable) A drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk or water.
- (countable) A cat having a chocolate-colored coat.
- (countable, slang) A black person.
- (chiefly uncountable) A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.
- (uncountable) A dark, reddish-brown colour/color, like that of chocolate (also called chocolate brown).
adj
verb
noun
- a medium brown to dark-brown color
- a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans
- a seed of the coffee tree; ground to make coffee
- any of several small trees and shrubs native to the tropical Old World yielding coffee beans
- The seeds of the plant used to make coffee, called ‘beans’ due to their shape.
- A pale brown color, like that of milk coffee.
- (uncountable) A beverage made by infusing the beans of the coffee plant in hot water.
- The end of a meal, when coffee is served.
- (countable) A serving of this beverage.
- The powder made by roasting and grinding the seeds.
- A tropical plant of the genus Coffea.
adj
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
- a dark brown color
- a flavoring made from coffee mixed with chocolate
- soft suede glove leather from goatskin
- a superior dark coffee made from beans from Arabia
- A strong Arabian coffee.
- (countable) A coffee drink with chocolate syrup added, or a serving thereof.
- A flavour that combines coffee and chocolate.
- A dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee.
- (historical) An Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain.
- Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, many European species having dark brown coloration.
adj
noun
- A light brown colour.
- (US, slang) A plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack.
- (UK, India, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, sometimes Canada, uncommon in the US and the Philippines) A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.
- (especially nautical) Any of several hard bread or breadlike foodstuffs, especially those formerly supplied to naval ships and armies, made with very little water, kneaded into flat cakes, and slowly baked, and which often became infested with weevils.
- (chiefly Canada, US, rare in Scotland and Guernsey) A small, usually soft and flaky bread, generally made with baking soda, which is similar in texture to a scone but which is usually not sweet.
- (slang) The head.
- (ice hockey, shuffleboard) A puck (hockey puck).
- A form of unglazed earthenware.
- (UK, Ireland, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia) A cracker.
- (US, slang, hiphop) A handgun, especially a revolver.
- (New Zealand) An inner tube used in the sport of tubing, or biscuiting.
- (woodworking) A thin oval wafer of wood or other material inserted into mating slots on pieces of material to be joined to provide gluing surface and strength in shear.
- small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda
- any of various small flat sweet cakes
verb
verb
- make brown in color
- (intransitive) To become brown.
- fry in a pan until it changes color
- (cooking, transitive) To cook something until it becomes brown.
- (transitive) To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
- (demography, transitive, intransitive, slang, ethnic slur, usually derogatory, offensive) To turn progressively more Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
- (transitive) To make brown or dusky.
- (intransitive, transitive) To tan.
adj
- Having a brown colour.
- (of skin) deeply suntanned
- of a color similar to that of wood or earth
- (of East-Eurasian ancestry) Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, or sometimes Native American
- (US, loosely, vague) of color.
- (of Asians and Africans) South Asian or sometimes Middle Eastern or North African
- Not green (environmentally irresponsible); anti-green (against environmental protection).
- (US) Latino/Latin American
noun
- an orange of low brightness and saturation
- (countable and uncountable) A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
- (uncountable) Black tar heroin.
- (hunting, as "the brown") A mass of birds or animals that may be indiscriminately fired at.
- A brown horse or other animal.
- (informal) A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
- (snooker, countable) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
- (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae (formerly the family Satyridae), such as those of the genera Heteronympha and Melanitis.
- (sometimes capitalised, countable, informal, ethnic slur) A person of mostly Latin American (or Latino), Middle Eastern/North African, South Asian, and sometimes Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, or rarely Native American descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto, or biracial appearance.
adj
noun
- liver of an animal used as meat
- large and complicated reddish-brown glandular organ located in the upper right portion of the abdominal cavity; secretes bile and functions in metabolism of protein and carbohydrate and fat; synthesizes substances involved in the clotting of the blood; synthesizes vitamin A; detoxifies poisonous substances and breaks down worn-out erythrocytes
- someone who lives in a place
- a person who has a special life style
- Someone who is alive: one of the living.
- (countable, uncountable) This organ, as taken from animals used as food.
- Someone who lives in a particular place; an inhabitant, a dweller.
- (anatomy) A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions.
- (uncommon) Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).
- A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver.
adj
noun
- a shade of brown that is yellowish or reddish; it is a greenish shade of brown when used to describe the color of someone's eyes
- the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris)
- any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk
- Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts
- (uncountable) The wood of a hazelnut tree.
- (countable) The nut of the hazel tree.
- (countable) A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.
- (mining, countable) Freestone.
- (countable and uncountable) A greenish-brown colour, the colour of a ripe hazelnut.
adj
noun
- true cinnamon, the product made of Cinnamomum verum
- Several related trees, notably the Indonesian cinnamon (Cinnamomum burmanni) and Chinese cinnamon or cassia (Cinnamomum aromaticum or Cinnamomum cassia).
- (countable) A small evergreen tree native to Sri Lanka and southern India, Cinnamomum verum or Cinnamomum zeylanicum, belonging to the family Lauraceae.
- (chiefly uncountable) A spice from the dried aromatic bark of the cinnamon tree, either rolled into strips or ground into a powder. The word is commonly used as trade name for spices made of any of the species above.
- (countable) A warm yellowish-brown color, the color of cinnamon.
- tropical Asian tree with aromatic yellowish-brown bark; source of the spice cinnamon
- spice from the dried aromatic bark of the Ceylon cinnamon tree; used as rolled strips or ground
- aromatic bark used as a spice
adj
noun
- A light, brown-like colour.
- A darkening of the skin resulting from exposure to sunlight or similar light sources.
- An Armenian drink made of yoghurt and water similar to airan and doogh
- The bark of an oak or other tree from which tannic acid is obtained.
- (dialectal) A twig or small switch.
- Synonym of picul, particularly in Cantonese contexts.
- a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun
- a light brown the color of topaz
- ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle
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verb
- (transitive) To change an animal hide into leather by soaking it in tannic acid.
- (transitive, intransitive) To change to a tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
- (transitive, informal) To spank or beat.
- (transitive, stative) To work as a tanner.
- (transitive, MLE, slang) To kill by gun, to shoot.
- treat skins and hides with tannic acid so as to convert them into leather
- get a tan, from wind or sun
noun
- A reddish-brown color.
- (UK, Cockney rhyming slang) A homosexual.
- (colloquial, often derogatory, countable) A person with reddish hair; a redhead.
- (colloquial, Scotland, especially Glasgow, countable and uncountable) Any fizzy soft drink, or can or bottle of such; pop; soda.
- The plant that produces this rhizome.
- The pungent aromatic rhizome of a tropical Asian herb, Zingiber officinale, used as a spice and as a stimulant and acarminative.
- (colloquial, countable and uncountable) Ginger ale, or can or bottle of such (especially if dry).
- (colloquial, uncountable) Vitality, vigour, liveliness (of character).
- Other species belonging to the same family, Zingiberaceae, especially those of the genus Zingiber
- perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems
- liveliness and energy
- dried ground gingerroot
- pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Asian cookery
adj
adv
verb
- (idiomatic, transitive) To enliven, to spice (up).
- (transitive) To apply ginger to the anus of a horse to encourage it to carry its tail high and move in a lively fashion.
- (transitive) To add ginger to.
- (Nigeria, transitive) To inspire (someone); to give a little boost to.
- To move gingerly, in a very careful and cautious manner.
- add ginger to in order to add flavor
noun
adj
verb
noun
- A reddish-brown color.
- A strong reddish brown color.
- (philately) Damage caused to stamps and album pages by a fungal infection.
- A similar substance based on another metal.
- The deteriorated state of iron or steel as a result of moisture and oxidation; it consists mostly of iron(III) oxide (ferric oxide) and iron(II) oxide (ferrous oxide).
- A disease of plants caused by a reddish-brown fungus (Pucciniales).
- a plant disease that produces a reddish-brown discoloration of leaves and stems; caused by various rust fungi
- a red or brown oxide coating on iron or steel caused by the action of oxygen and moisture
- the formation of reddish-brown ferric oxides on iron by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water
- any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants
verb
- (intransitive) Of a black cat or its fur, to turn rust-coloured following long periods of exposure to sunlight.
- (intransitive) To oxidize, especially of iron or steel.
- (intransitive) To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust.
- (transitive) To cause to oxidize.
- (ambitransitive, figuratively) To (cause to) degenerate in idleness; to make or become dull or impaired by inaction.
- become coated with oxide
- cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid
- become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid
adj
adj
noun
noun
- A yellowish brown.
- A circular certificate used in some places to register a vehicle, especially a taxicab.
- A cut of meat resembling a large medal.
- A large medal, usually decorative.
- (art) A usually round or oval frame (often made of stucco) containing a decoration.
- an emblem indicating that a taxicab is registered
- any of various large ancient Greek coins
- a circular helping of food (especially a boneless cut of meat)
- an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event
verb
adj
noun
adj
noun
verb
adj
noun
- a sturdy twilled cloth of a yellowish brown color used especially for military uniforms
- (chiefly in the plural) Khaki clothing or uniform.
- Khaki green, a dull green colour.
- A dull, yellowish-brown colour, the colour of dust.
- A strong cloth of wool or cotton, often used for military or other uniforms.
- (South Africa, derogatory, slang) A British person.
- (rare) A soldier wearing a khaki uniform.
adj
noun
- Boldness; impudence.
- (countable and uncountable) A reddish-brown colour, the colour of bronze.
- (uncountable) A naturally occurring or man-made alloy of copper, usually in combination with tin, but also with one or more other metals.
- (countable) A work of art made of bronze, especially a sculpture.
- A bronze medal; third place.
- an alloy of copper and tin and sometimes other elements; also any copper-base alloy containing other elements in place of tin
- a sculpture made of bronze
verb
- (transitive) To plate with bronze.
- (transitive) To color bronze; (of the sun) to tan.
- (transitive) To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.
- (intransitive, of the skin) To change to a bronze or tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
- (intransitive) To finish in third place; to win a bronze medal.
- get a tan, from wind or sun
- give the color and appearance of bronze to something
noun
- a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color
- horse of a dull brownish grey color
- (countable) A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago.
- (countable, fishing) A fly made to resemble the mayfly subimago.
- An ancient or medieval fortification; especially a hill-fort in Scotland or Ireland.
- (countable) A collector of debts, especially one who is insistent and demanding.
- A brownish grey colour.
- An urgent request or demand of payment.
- A mound or small hill.
- (archaeology) A structure in the Orkney or Shetland islands or in Scotland consisting of a roundhouse surrounded by a circular wall; a broch.
- Alternative form of dhoon (“Himalayan valley”).
adj
verb
- treat cruelly
- persistently ask for overdue payment
- make a dun color
- cure by salting
- (nonstandard, informal) Eye dialect spelling of done: past participle of do.
- (transitive) To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.
- (transitive) To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
- (nonstandard, informal) Pronunciation spelling of don't: contraction of do + not.
intj
noun
verb
- show submission or fear
- have fawns
- try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
- (intransitive) To give birth to a fawn.
- (literal, of a dog) To show devotion or submissiveness by wagging its tail, nuzzling, licking, etc.
- (derogatory) To seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour. [with on or upon]
- To exhibit affection toward someone.
- To attempt to please someone.
adj
noun
- A grey-brown colour.
- (soccer, field hockey or ice hockey, basketball) The playing of the ball between the legs of an opponent.
- A small moth, Hadula trifolii, feeding on plants and native to the Northern Hemisphere.
- (countable) A whole nutmeg seed.
- An evergreen tree (Myristica fragrans) cultivated in the East Indies for its spicy seeds.
- (uncountable) The powdered seed, ready for use.
- East Indian tree widely cultivated in the tropics for its aromatic seed; source of two spices: nutmeg and mace
- hard aromatic seed of the nutmeg tree used as spice when grated or ground
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
noun
- A medium-brown color.
- An old bottle of spirits that has been kept for a long time.
- (military, slang) A supply petty officer.
- (possibly only in the plural) A clump of dust; a dust bunny.
- A migrant farmer from the dustbowl.
- (informal) A miller (from the image of millers being covered in flour dust).
- A dustman.
- A recording of music from another era, especially R&B; an oldie.
- A person of mixed race who has a swarthy complexion.
- An old person, especially one who is unwilling to change with the times.
- (rare) A duststorm.
adj
- Covered with dust.
- (figurative) Old; outdated; stuffily traditional.
- Grey or greyish.
- Powdery and resembling dust.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) Ugly, disgusting (a general term of abuse).
- (British, slang, chiefly in negative constructions) Ugly, unwell, inadequate, bad.
- covered with a layer of dust
- lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
noun
- a medium brown to dark-brown color
- a food made from roasted ground cacao beans
- a beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot
- (countable) A single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate.
- (uncountable) Blackness.
- (chiefly uncountable) A drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk or water.
- (countable) A cat having a chocolate-colored coat.
- (countable, slang) A black person.
- (chiefly uncountable) A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.
- (uncountable) A dark, reddish-brown colour/color, like that of chocolate (also called chocolate brown).
adj
verb
noun
- a medium brown to dark-brown color
- a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans
- a seed of the coffee tree; ground to make coffee
- any of several small trees and shrubs native to the tropical Old World yielding coffee beans
- The seeds of the plant used to make coffee, called ‘beans’ due to their shape.
- A pale brown color, like that of milk coffee.
- (uncountable) A beverage made by infusing the beans of the coffee plant in hot water.
- The end of a meal, when coffee is served.
- (countable) A serving of this beverage.
- The powder made by roasting and grinding the seeds.
- A tropical plant of the genus Coffea.
adj
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
- a dark brown color
- a flavoring made from coffee mixed with chocolate
- soft suede glove leather from goatskin
- a superior dark coffee made from beans from Arabia
- A strong Arabian coffee.
- (countable) A coffee drink with chocolate syrup added, or a serving thereof.
- A flavour that combines coffee and chocolate.
- A dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee.
- (historical) An Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain.
- Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, many European species having dark brown coloration.
adj
noun
- A light brown colour.
- (US, slang) A plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack.
- (UK, India, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, sometimes Canada, uncommon in the US and the Philippines) A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.
- (especially nautical) Any of several hard bread or breadlike foodstuffs, especially those formerly supplied to naval ships and armies, made with very little water, kneaded into flat cakes, and slowly baked, and which often became infested with weevils.
- (chiefly Canada, US, rare in Scotland and Guernsey) A small, usually soft and flaky bread, generally made with baking soda, which is similar in texture to a scone but which is usually not sweet.
- (slang) The head.
- (ice hockey, shuffleboard) A puck (hockey puck).
- A form of unglazed earthenware.
- (UK, Ireland, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia) A cracker.
- (US, slang, hiphop) A handgun, especially a revolver.
- (New Zealand) An inner tube used in the sport of tubing, or biscuiting.
- (woodworking) A thin oval wafer of wood or other material inserted into mating slots on pieces of material to be joined to provide gluing surface and strength in shear.
- small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda
- any of various small flat sweet cakes
verb
adj
noun
- A light, brown-like colour.
- A darkening of the skin resulting from exposure to sunlight or similar light sources.
- An Armenian drink made of yoghurt and water similar to airan and doogh
- The bark of an oak or other tree from which tannic acid is obtained.
- (dialectal) A twig or small switch.
- Synonym of picul, particularly in Cantonese contexts.
- a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun
- a light brown the color of topaz
- ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle
num
verb
- (transitive) To change an animal hide into leather by soaking it in tannic acid.
- (transitive, intransitive) To change to a tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
- (transitive, informal) To spank or beat.
- (transitive, stative) To work as a tanner.
- (transitive, MLE, slang) To kill by gun, to shoot.
- treat skins and hides with tannic acid so as to convert them into leather
- get a tan, from wind or sun
noun
- A reddish-brown color.
- (UK, Cockney rhyming slang) A homosexual.
- (colloquial, often derogatory, countable) A person with reddish hair; a redhead.
- (colloquial, Scotland, especially Glasgow, countable and uncountable) Any fizzy soft drink, or can or bottle of such; pop; soda.
- The plant that produces this rhizome.
- The pungent aromatic rhizome of a tropical Asian herb, Zingiber officinale, used as a spice and as a stimulant and acarminative.
- (colloquial, countable and uncountable) Ginger ale, or can or bottle of such (especially if dry).
- (colloquial, uncountable) Vitality, vigour, liveliness (of character).
- Other species belonging to the same family, Zingiberaceae, especially those of the genus Zingiber
- perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems
- liveliness and energy
- dried ground gingerroot
- pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Asian cookery
adj
adv
verb
- (idiomatic, transitive) To enliven, to spice (up).
- (transitive) To apply ginger to the anus of a horse to encourage it to carry its tail high and move in a lively fashion.
- (transitive) To add ginger to.
- (Nigeria, transitive) To inspire (someone); to give a little boost to.
- To move gingerly, in a very careful and cautious manner.
- add ginger to in order to add flavor
noun
adj
verb
noun
- A reddish-brown color.
- A strong reddish brown color.
- (philately) Damage caused to stamps and album pages by a fungal infection.
- A similar substance based on another metal.
- The deteriorated state of iron or steel as a result of moisture and oxidation; it consists mostly of iron(III) oxide (ferric oxide) and iron(II) oxide (ferrous oxide).
- A disease of plants caused by a reddish-brown fungus (Pucciniales).
- a plant disease that produces a reddish-brown discoloration of leaves and stems; caused by various rust fungi
- a red or brown oxide coating on iron or steel caused by the action of oxygen and moisture
- the formation of reddish-brown ferric oxides on iron by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water
- any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants
verb
- (intransitive) Of a black cat or its fur, to turn rust-coloured following long periods of exposure to sunlight.
- (intransitive) To oxidize, especially of iron or steel.
- (intransitive) To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust.
- (transitive) To cause to oxidize.
- (ambitransitive, figuratively) To (cause to) degenerate in idleness; to make or become dull or impaired by inaction.
- become coated with oxide
- cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid
- become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid
adj
noun
- A yellowish brown.
- A circular certificate used in some places to register a vehicle, especially a taxicab.
- A cut of meat resembling a large medal.
- A large medal, usually decorative.
- (art) A usually round or oval frame (often made of stucco) containing a decoration.
- an emblem indicating that a taxicab is registered
- any of various large ancient Greek coins
- a circular helping of food (especially a boneless cut of meat)
- an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event
verb
adj
noun
noun
- a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color
- horse of a dull brownish grey color
- (countable) A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago.
- (countable, fishing) A fly made to resemble the mayfly subimago.
- An ancient or medieval fortification; especially a hill-fort in Scotland or Ireland.
- (countable) A collector of debts, especially one who is insistent and demanding.
- A brownish grey colour.
- An urgent request or demand of payment.
- A mound or small hill.
- (archaeology) A structure in the Orkney or Shetland islands or in Scotland consisting of a roundhouse surrounded by a circular wall; a broch.
- Alternative form of dhoon (“Himalayan valley”).
adj
verb
- treat cruelly
- persistently ask for overdue payment
- make a dun color
- cure by salting
- (nonstandard, informal) Eye dialect spelling of done: past participle of do.
- (transitive) To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.
- (transitive) To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
- (nonstandard, informal) Pronunciation spelling of don't: contraction of do + not.
intj
noun
verb
- show submission or fear
- have fawns
- try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
- (intransitive) To give birth to a fawn.
- (literal, of a dog) To show devotion or submissiveness by wagging its tail, nuzzling, licking, etc.
- (derogatory) To seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour. [with on or upon]
- To exhibit affection toward someone.
- To attempt to please someone.
adj
noun
- A grey-brown colour.
- (soccer, field hockey or ice hockey, basketball) The playing of the ball between the legs of an opponent.
- A small moth, Hadula trifolii, feeding on plants and native to the Northern Hemisphere.
- (countable) A whole nutmeg seed.
- An evergreen tree (Myristica fragrans) cultivated in the East Indies for its spicy seeds.
- (uncountable) The powdered seed, ready for use.
- East Indian tree widely cultivated in the tropics for its aromatic seed; source of two spices: nutmeg and mace
- hard aromatic seed of the nutmeg tree used as spice when grated or ground
verb
noun
adj
verb
adj
noun
- a shade of brown that is yellowish or reddish; it is a greenish shade of brown when used to describe the color of someone's eyes
- the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris)
- any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk
- Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts
- (uncountable) The wood of a hazelnut tree.
- (countable) The nut of the hazel tree.
- (countable) A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.
- (mining, countable) Freestone.
- (countable and uncountable) A greenish-brown colour, the colour of a ripe hazelnut.
verb
- make brown in color
- (intransitive) To become brown.
- fry in a pan until it changes color
- (cooking, transitive) To cook something until it becomes brown.
- (transitive) To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
- (demography, transitive, intransitive, slang, ethnic slur, usually derogatory, offensive) To turn progressively more Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
- (transitive) To make brown or dusky.
- (intransitive, transitive) To tan.
adj
- Having a brown colour.
- (of skin) deeply suntanned
- of a color similar to that of wood or earth
- (of East-Eurasian ancestry) Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, or sometimes Native American
- (US, loosely, vague) of color.
- (of Asians and Africans) South Asian or sometimes Middle Eastern or North African
- Not green (environmentally irresponsible); anti-green (against environmental protection).
- (US) Latino/Latin American
noun
- an orange of low brightness and saturation
- (countable and uncountable) A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
- (uncountable) Black tar heroin.
- (hunting, as "the brown") A mass of birds or animals that may be indiscriminately fired at.
- A brown horse or other animal.
- (informal) A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
- (snooker, countable) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
- (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae (formerly the family Satyridae), such as those of the genera Heteronympha and Melanitis.
- (sometimes capitalised, countable, informal, ethnic slur) A person of mostly Latin American (or Latino), Middle Eastern/North African, South Asian, and sometimes Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, or rarely Native American descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto, or biracial appearance.
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- any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
- a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color
- East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber
- large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces
- any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis
- Members of genus Oxalis or family Oxalidaceae, woodsorrels.
- A drink, consumed especially in the Caribbean around Christmas, made from the flowers of Hibiscus sabdariffa: hibiscus tea.
- Any of various plants with acidic leaves of the genus Rumex, especially
- The roselle, Hibiscus sabdariffa.
- Rumex acetosa (common sorrel, garden sorrel), sometimes used as a salad vegetable.
- A brown colour, with a tint of red.
adj
noun
- liver of an animal used as meat
- large and complicated reddish-brown glandular organ located in the upper right portion of the abdominal cavity; secretes bile and functions in metabolism of protein and carbohydrate and fat; synthesizes substances involved in the clotting of the blood; synthesizes vitamin A; detoxifies poisonous substances and breaks down worn-out erythrocytes
- someone who lives in a place
- a person who has a special life style
- Someone who is alive: one of the living.
- (countable, uncountable) This organ, as taken from animals used as food.
- Someone who lives in a particular place; an inhabitant, a dweller.
- (anatomy) A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions.
- (uncommon) Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).
- A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver.
adj
noun
- a shade of brown that is yellowish or reddish; it is a greenish shade of brown when used to describe the color of someone's eyes
- the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris)
- any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk
- Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts
- (uncountable) The wood of a hazelnut tree.
- (countable) The nut of the hazel tree.
- (countable) A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.
- (mining, countable) Freestone.
- (countable and uncountable) A greenish-brown colour, the colour of a ripe hazelnut.
adj
noun
- true cinnamon, the product made of Cinnamomum verum
- Several related trees, notably the Indonesian cinnamon (Cinnamomum burmanni) and Chinese cinnamon or cassia (Cinnamomum aromaticum or Cinnamomum cassia).
- (countable) A small evergreen tree native to Sri Lanka and southern India, Cinnamomum verum or Cinnamomum zeylanicum, belonging to the family Lauraceae.
- (chiefly uncountable) A spice from the dried aromatic bark of the cinnamon tree, either rolled into strips or ground into a powder. The word is commonly used as trade name for spices made of any of the species above.
- (countable) A warm yellowish-brown color, the color of cinnamon.
- tropical Asian tree with aromatic yellowish-brown bark; source of the spice cinnamon
- spice from the dried aromatic bark of the Ceylon cinnamon tree; used as rolled strips or ground
- aromatic bark used as a spice
adj
noun
- A light, brown-like colour.
- A darkening of the skin resulting from exposure to sunlight or similar light sources.
- An Armenian drink made of yoghurt and water similar to airan and doogh
- The bark of an oak or other tree from which tannic acid is obtained.
- (dialectal) A twig or small switch.
- Synonym of picul, particularly in Cantonese contexts.
- a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun
- a light brown the color of topaz
- ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle
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verb
- (transitive) To change an animal hide into leather by soaking it in tannic acid.
- (transitive, intransitive) To change to a tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
- (transitive, informal) To spank or beat.
- (transitive, stative) To work as a tanner.
- (transitive, MLE, slang) To kill by gun, to shoot.
- treat skins and hides with tannic acid so as to convert them into leather
- get a tan, from wind or sun
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adj
noun
verb
- make brown in color
- (intransitive) To become brown.
- fry in a pan until it changes color
- (cooking, transitive) To cook something until it becomes brown.
- (transitive) To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
- (demography, transitive, intransitive, slang, ethnic slur, usually derogatory, offensive) To turn progressively more Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
- (transitive) To make brown or dusky.
- (intransitive, transitive) To tan.
adj
- Having a brown colour.
- (of skin) deeply suntanned
- of a color similar to that of wood or earth
- (of East-Eurasian ancestry) Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, or sometimes Native American
- (US, loosely, vague) of color.
- (of Asians and Africans) South Asian or sometimes Middle Eastern or North African
- Not green (environmentally irresponsible); anti-green (against environmental protection).
- (US) Latino/Latin American
noun
- an orange of low brightness and saturation
- (countable and uncountable) A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
- (uncountable) Black tar heroin.
- (hunting, as "the brown") A mass of birds or animals that may be indiscriminately fired at.
- A brown horse or other animal.
- (informal) A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
- (snooker, countable) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
- (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae (formerly the family Satyridae), such as those of the genera Heteronympha and Melanitis.
- (sometimes capitalised, countable, informal, ethnic slur) A person of mostly Latin American (or Latino), Middle Eastern/North African, South Asian, and sometimes Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, or rarely Native American descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto, or biracial appearance.
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- a sturdy twilled cloth of a yellowish brown color used especially for military uniforms
- (chiefly in the plural) Khaki clothing or uniform.
- Khaki green, a dull green colour.
- A dull, yellowish-brown colour, the colour of dust.
- A strong cloth of wool or cotton, often used for military or other uniforms.
- (South Africa, derogatory, slang) A British person.
- (rare) A soldier wearing a khaki uniform.
noun
- a medium brown to dark-brown color
- a food made from roasted ground cacao beans
- a beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot
- (countable) A single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate.
- (uncountable) Blackness.
- (chiefly uncountable) A drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk or water.
- (countable) A cat having a chocolate-colored coat.
- (countable, slang) A black person.
- (chiefly uncountable) A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.
- (uncountable) A dark, reddish-brown colour/color, like that of chocolate (also called chocolate brown).
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noun
- Boldness; impudence.
- (countable and uncountable) A reddish-brown colour, the colour of bronze.
- (uncountable) A naturally occurring or man-made alloy of copper, usually in combination with tin, but also with one or more other metals.
- (countable) A work of art made of bronze, especially a sculpture.
- A bronze medal; third place.
- an alloy of copper and tin and sometimes other elements; also any copper-base alloy containing other elements in place of tin
- a sculpture made of bronze
verb
- (transitive) To plate with bronze.
- (transitive) To color bronze; (of the sun) to tan.
- (transitive) To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.
- (intransitive, of the skin) To change to a bronze or tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
- (intransitive) To finish in third place; to win a bronze medal.
- get a tan, from wind or sun
- give the color and appearance of bronze to something