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A very handsome American butterfly (Polygonia interrogationis). Its wings are mottled with various shades of red and brown and have violet tips.

• Violet-tip
  A very handsome American butterfly (Polygonia interrogationis). Its wings are mottled with various shades of red and brown and have violet tips.
• Brownness
  The quality or state of being brown.
• AMERICANPLAN
  In hotels, aplan upon which guests pay for both room and board by the day, week, or other convenient period; -- contrasted with European plan.
• Americanism
  Attachment to the United States.
• Brownstone
  A dark variety of sandstone, much used for building purposes.
• AMERICANPROTECTIVEASSOCIATION
  A secret organization in the United States, formed in Iowa in 1887, ostensibly for the protection of American institutions by keeping Roman Catholics out of public office. Abbrev. commonly to A.
• Americanization
  The process of Americanizing.
• Brown thrush
  A common American singing bird (Harporhynchus rufus), allied to the mocking bird; -- also called brown thrasher.
• BROWNBILL
  A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill. Many time, but for a sallet, my brainpan had been cleft with a brown bill. Shak. Note: The black, or as it is sometimes called, the brown bill, was a kind of halberd, the cutting part hook
• Americanizer
  of Americanize
• Brownwort
  A species of figwort or Scrophularia (S. vernalis), and other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous coarse flowers.
• BROWNRACE
  The Malay or Polynesian race; -- loosely so called.
• Americanizing
  of Americanize
• BROWNTHRUSH
  A common American singing bird (Harporhynchus rufus), allied to the mocking bird; -- also called brown thrasher.
• Americanize
  To render American; to assimilate to the Americans in customs, ideas, etc.; to stamp with American characteristics.

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