Resembling wainscot, hardened or coloured like old wainscot. Obsolete.

Of the colour of earth; brownish.

Of the colour of snuff; brown, brownish.

Like, or resembling, snuff or powdered tobacco in colour or substance.

Of Shetland sheep or their wool: of a mid-brown colour, between fawn and dark brown. Of a garment, etc.: made of moorit wool.

Of a dark brown or reddish-brown colour.

Attributive in the sense of ‘umber-coloured’.

Of the colour of umber; dark brown.

(Usually written Sienna.) The colour of this pigment, a rich reddish brown. Also attributive and in other combinations, as sienna-brown, sienna-red.

Similative, as seal-brown adj.

Of a deep shade of brown; tobacco-coloured. Also as n.

Acorn-coloured.

having the brown colour of a cigar.

Of a brown colour similar to that of cocoa. Cf. cocoa brown n. adj.(b) at compounds 3.

= sense A. 4 above.

Toffee-coloured; medium brown. Cf. sense A. 4 above.

Of the colour of sludge.