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brown a Cp OED brown bess 'name familiarly given in the British Army to
the old flint-lock musket'; O Sup2 brown a 7: brown top (Aust).
Comb brown alder: mountain alder (Alnus crispa) (1978
ROULEAU 84).
brown bobber: eastern fox sparrow
(Passerella iliaca iliaca) (1959 MCATEE 66).
brown
oil: in rendering cod-livers or seal blubber, the last oil extracted in the process.
1818 Waterford Mirror 28 Sep Brown seal oil. 1832 MCGREGOR
i, 225 The first that runs off the seal blubber is the virgin, or pale oil, and the last
the brown oil. 1888 STEARNS 186 In one corner of the platform was a big iron kettle where
the men were hastening the process of oil making by boiling, and forming a different kind
of oil,—the two kinds being known as the 'brown oil' and the 'straw or pale oil.'
1925 MUNN 7 Brown cod liver oil.
brown sally: a flint-lock
musket.
1895 GRENFELL 225 [We left Battle Harbour] amidst the
salutes from many 'Brown Sallys.'
brown top (grass): name
of several varieties of wild grass: (a) woodreed grass (Cinna latifolia); (b)
panic-grass (Panicum lanuginosum).
1898 J A Folklore
xi, 283 Brown tops. 1956 ROULEAU 27 Brown-top Grass.
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