(a) Dark, dull; of the human body: black-and-blue [quot.: a1425]; (b) cheerless, frowning, gloomy; (c) with names of colors: dark, deep; ?also, mixed with brown, brownish; ~ bai, dark bay; ~ basup, dark purple, ?brownish purple [cp. OE brūn-basu]; ~ murrei, dark purple-red; etc.

(a) Of a brown color, brown; (b) in names: ~ berd, brown-bearded; ~ eie, brown-eyed; ~ lok, brown-haired; (c) ~ bred, bread containing rye, bran, etc.; ~ medle, variegated cloth of a predominantly brown color; ~ swin, a porpoise; (d) ~ baker, a baker of brown bread; ~ smith, a worker in copper, bronze, or brass; (e) ?of a purple color, ?brownish purple.

(a) Of persons: brown, sunburnt, brunet; prob. also, brown-haired; swarthy or sallow (from the effects of love or Mars' wrath); of a brown-skinned race [quot.: a1398]; (b) in personal names.

In plant names: (a) ~ bugle, some member of the genus Ajuga; ?creeping bugle Ajuga reptans; ~ fenel, some kind of fennel; ?hog's fennel Peucedanum officinale; ~ maithe, mayweed Anthemis cotula or a similar plant; ~ mint, ?spearmint Mentha viridis; (b) ~ wort [cp. OE brūnwyrt], any of several plants; ?the whortleberry Vaccinium myrtillus; = brother-wort [quot.: PParv.]; as gloss to L splenium, splenion: ?the dwarf spleenwort Asplenium ruta-muraria, ?scaly ceterach or spleenwort Ceterach officinarum.

Of steel, weapons, armor, glass, etc.: shining, polished, bright.