[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality or state of being brown.
1572. J. Jones, Bathes of Bath, III. 26 b. Blackenes or brownes of egestion.
1611. Cotgr., Rissole, the brownenesse that is giuen to a thing in the frying thereof.
1732. De Foe, Tour Gt. Brit. (1769), III. 76. The Derwent is remarkable for its Brownness.
1878. Habershon, Dis. Abdomen, 16. Brownness of the tongue … in states of exhaustion.
