Brown Bessn.

Etymology: < brown adj. + the female name Bess.brown musket was in earlier use (see quots. 1709, 1754): both names existed long before the process of ‘browning’ the barrel (introduced in 1808), and apparently referred to the brown walnut stock.

Now historical.

In the British Army: (a name familiarly given to) the flintlock musket.

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snaphancec1575

muscado1592

firelock1625

matchlock1638

fusee1661

squirt-fire1678

fusil1680

jingal1761

Brown Bess1785

tophaike1813

Tower musket1832

jezail1838

trumpet-pipe1844

bundook1886

needle-musket1898

1709 S. Centlivre Busie Body i. i. 3 My last Refuge, a brown Musquet.

1754 Connoisseur No. 31 The ceremony is performed by a brown musket.]

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (at cited word) To hug brown Bess: to carry a firelock, to serve as a private soldier.

1797 Gentleman's Mag. 67 1022 ‘Etymologus’ asks ‘Can you trace the application of the term Brown Bess to anything loading or fatiguing, such as a musket to soldiers tired on a long march or to a wooden pump? Or is it..derived from the colour of the material? Why is Bess the more favourite term than Nan or Moll? A brown musket is not an uncommon phrase, taking the part for the whole, the stock for the steel. But why is Bess brought in?’

1809 R. K. Porter Travelling Sketches Russia & Sweden I. xxiv. 273 A good soldier..sleeping with his hand on his musquet, his wedded wife and dear brown Bess.

1820 W. Combe Second Tour Dr. Syntax xxviii. 78 Religion Jack did ne'er profess, Till he had shoulder'd Old Brown Bess.

1860 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1861) III. cxix. 61 Without more danger from Enfield or Whitworth than from Brown Bess.

c1880 J. Grant Hist. India I. v. 26/1 Britons with their old ‘brown Besses’.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online September 2019).

单词	brown bess
释义	Brown Bessn. Etymology: < brown adj. + the female name Bess.brown musket was in earlier use (see quots. 1709, 1754): both names existed long before the process of ‘browning’ the barrel (introduced in 1808), and apparently referred to the brown walnut stock. Now historical. In the British Army: (a name familiarly given to) the flintlock musket. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > musket musket1574 snaphancec1575 muscado1592 firelock1625 matchlock1638 fusee1661 squirt-fire1678 fusil1680 jingal1761 Brown Bess1785 tophaike1813 Tower musket1832 jezail1838 trumpet-pipe1844 bundook1886 needle-musket1898 1709 S. Centlivre Busie Body i. i. 3 My last Refuge, a brown Musquet. 1754 Connoisseur No. 31 The ceremony is performed by a brown musket.] 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (at cited word) To hug brown Bess: to carry a firelock, to serve as a private soldier. 1797 Gentleman's Mag. 67 1022 ‘Etymologus’ asks ‘Can you trace the application of the term Brown Bess to anything loading or fatiguing, such as a musket to soldiers tired on a long march or to a wooden pump? Or is it..derived from the colour of the material? Why is Bess the more favourite term than Nan or Moll? A brown musket is not an uncommon phrase, taking the part for the whole, the stock for the steel. But why is Bess brought in?’ 1809 R. K. Porter Travelling Sketches Russia & Sweden I. xxiv. 273 A good soldier..sleeping with his hand on his musquet, his wedded wife and dear brown Bess. 1820 W. Combe Second Tour Dr. Syntax xxviii. 78 Religion Jack did ne'er profess, Till he had shoulder'd Old Brown Bess. 1860 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1861) III. cxix. 61 Without more danger from Enfield or Whitworth than from Brown Bess. c1880 J. Grant Hist. India I. v. 26/1 Britons with their old ‘brown Besses’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1785
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