brow /brau/
noun 1 (literary)
the part of the face above the eyes and below the hair 3^ FK771 forehead : The nurse mopped his fevered brow. fuHjT 0 Her brow
furrowed in concentration. MU AM M:£ttvfiio 2 [usually
pi.] = eyebrow; One dark
brow rose in surprise. —MM3 [usually sing.] the
top part of a hill iL| # ; ££ M : The path
disappeared over the brow of the
hill.
/M2?ili|®/p A T o —see also highbrow, lowbrow, middlebrow 8T7T77I see knit v.
brow-beat /'braubiit/
verb (brow beat, brow-beat-en /'braubiitn/) [VN] ~ sb
(into doing sth) to frighten or threaten sb in order to make them do sth
ifn] Pf; pgiTI intimidate; They were browbeaten into accepting the
offer.
I!]«lil7li0 brown o-w /braun/ adj.,
noun, verb m adj. (brown-er,
brown-est) 1 having the colour of earth or coffee M "fe ft): brown eyes ft) BI'Bf 0
brown bread HH-fe o dark
brown shoe polish if I*-fell |«a package wrapped in brown paper
^ Ti&^ftfHTLft) ■fHH 2 having skin that is naturally brown or has
been made brown by the sun ( )
tt&ft), ttBIUftJ :
(BrE) I don’t go brown very easily, X&J§ ®Ho O After
the summer in
, arFfflffiftttH.
ITSTOl in a brown 'study (old-fashioned,
BrE)
thinking deeply so that you do not notice what is happening around you Hitt;
TOM ( vmWXMMimmU ) at noun [U, C] the colour of
earth or coffee ^ "fe:
leaves of various shades of
brown ‘ftlttfeB+T <>
Brown doesn’t (= brown clothes do
not) suit you.
a verb to become brown; to
make sth brown ( ®
[V]
Heat the butter until it browns. jfiiiC
® jjp ttf, T M o O The grass was browning in patches, — 0 [VN] Brown the
onions before adding the
meat.
IR71 .browned 'off (with
sb/sth) (BrE, informal) bored, unhappy and/or annoyed
( /H ^ A ) f§, A , ffl tSi HTH fed up : By now the passengers
were
getting browned off with the
delay. ClXH M iil B
.brown
'ale noun (BrB) 1 [u, C] a type of mild
sweet dark beer sold in bottles ik M (
US ^ Hi H ) 2 [C] a bottle or glass of brown ale
—
'brown-bag verb (-gg-) [VN] (NAmE,
informal) to bring your lunch with you to work or school, usually in a
brown paper bag g ) : My kids
have been brown-bagging it
this week. $c/lT®Ti&T
.brown
'dwarf noun (astronomy A) an object in space
that is between a large planet and a small star in size, and produces heat
|hT )
brown-field
/'braonfiild/
adj. [only before noun] (BrE) used to describe an
area of land in a city that was used by industry or for offices in the past and
that may now be cleared for new building development ( W
MfrA^tftjMTUhlilfc ) : a brownfield site
'brown goods noun [pi.] small
electrical items such as televisions, radios, music and video equipment -fe
££& ( ft, *lfc%$li> UMii##
) —compare
WHITE
GOODS
brownie
/'brauni/
noun 1 [C] a thick soft flat cake made with chocolate and
sometimes nuts and served in small squares *5 % tl 2f 3t H ( ) : a fudge
brownie — Vj % jj |g |£ 2 the Brownies [pi.] a branch of the Scout Association for girls between the
ages of seven and ten or eleven 1—P ftJ&^Mi ) : to join
the Brownies 3 [C] Brownie (BrE also 'Brownie Guide) a member of the
Brownies ( — T ) — compare cub(3),
guide n.(6), Scout
'brownie point noun [usually pi.] (informal) if sb does sth to earn brownie points, they
do it to make sb in authority have a good opinion of them £f£pl|.; bkhcMi The Brownies is a club
for