(chiefly Britain) Head cheese; a terrine made from the head of a pig or calf; originally boar's meat.
Physical strength; muscularity.
Strong muscles or lean flesh, especially of the arm, leg or thumb.
verb
(intransitive) Become fat, especially of a boar.
(transitive) Make fat, especially of a boar.
brown
brown
adj
(US) Latino
(obsolete) Gloomy.
(of Asians) South Asian
(of East Asians) Southeast Asian
Having a brown colour.
noun
(countable and uncountable) A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
(entomology) Any of certain species of nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae, such as those of the genera Heteronympha and Melanitis.
(entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae (formerly the family Satyridae).
(hunting, as "the brown") A mass of birds or animals that may be indiscriminately fired at.
(informal) A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
(slang, archaic, countable) A copper coin.
(snooker, countable) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
(sometimes capitalised, countable, informal) A person of Latino, Middle Eastern or South Asian descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto or biracial appearance.
(uncountable) Black tar heroin.
A brown horse or other animal.
verb
(cooking, transitive) To cook something until it becomes brown.
(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.
(intransitive) To become brown.
(intransitive, transitive) To tan.
(transitive) To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
