Tawny
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
(n.) of a dull yellowish brown color, like things tanned, or persons who are sunburnt; as, tawny Moor or Spaniard; the tawny lion.
Strong's Hebrew
6715. tsachor -- tawny
... 6714, 6715. tsachor. 6716 . tawny. Transliteration: tsachor Phonetic
Spelling: (tsaw-khore') Short Definition: white. Word Origin ...
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6713. tsachar -- reddish-gray, tawny
... 6712, 6713. tsachar. 6714 . reddish-gray, tawny. Transliteration: tsachar
Phonetic Spelling: (tsakh'-ar) Short Definition: white. ...
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Library

The Heathens Made Gods Like Themselves, Whence Springs all ...
... And as each of them depict their forms similar to themselves, as Xenophanes says,
"Ethiopians as black and apes, the Thracians ruddy and tawny;" so also they ...
/.../clement/the stromata or miscellanies/chapter iv the heathens made gods.htm

The Further Adventures of Saint George.
... fastening the bridle of his steed to, as he believed, one of the branches, while
his master was scouring over the plain after a troop of tawny lions, which had ...
/.../the seven champions of christendom/chapter four the further adventures.htm

An Impossibility Made Possible
... Whether it wraps the whole character in black, or whether it only spots it here
and there with tawny yellow, it is ineradicable; and a man can no more change ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture h/an impossibility made possible.htm

The Iranian Conquest
... now most generally accepted is that of Burnouf, according to which it would signify
"the man with gold-coloured camels," the "possessor of tawny camels." The ...
/.../chapter ithe iranian conquest.htm

A Traveler's Note-Book
... The high-roofed house, the brazen threshold, the polished chest, the silver-studded
sword, the purple robes,"the tawny oxen, the hollow ships, the tapering ...
/.../merriam/the chief end of man/iii a travelers note-book.htm

A Living Book
... The message is for all; for the cleverest white man, the most ignorant savage; for
the black man of Africa, the yellow man of China, the tawny little man who ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/duff/the bible in its making/chapter i a living book.htm

The Road to Rome
... He saw them slack their speed and widen their beds in the upland valleys.
He saw them grow sluggish, tawny with mud, in the plain. ...
/.../chapter xii the road to.htm

The Adventures of Saint James of Spain.
... knights, bearing blood-red streamers in their hands, and riding on as many
coal-black coursers; then came the Shah, guarded by a hundred tawny Moors, with ...
/.../kingston/the seven champions of christendom/chapter six the adventures of.htm

The Fallacy of the Young Nation
... ordinary human instinct would, I imagine, tend to symbolize evening by cravats with
some of the colours of the sunset, not white neckties, but tawny or crimson ...
//christianbookshelf.org/chesterton/heretics/xviii the fallacy of the.htm

The Schoolboy of Madaura
... At last, upon a piece of tableland, Madaura comes into view, all white in the midst
of the vast tawny plain, where to-day nothing is to be seen but a mausoleum ...
//christianbookshelf.org/bertrand/saint augustin/v the schoolboy of madaura.htm

Thesaurus
Tawny (1 Occurrence)
... (n.) of a dull yellowish brown color, like things tanned, or persons who are sunburnt;
as, tawny Moor or Spaniard; the tawny lion. ...Tawny (1 Occurrence). ...
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Ossifrage (2 Occurrences)
... The back is grayish black, the feathers finely penciled, the shaft being
white, the median line tawny. The under parts are tawny...
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Olive (61 Occurrences)
... form. See Oliva. 4. (n.) The oyster catcher. 5. (n.) The color of the olive,
a peculiar dark brownish, yellowish, or tawny green. 6 ...
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Owl (11 Occurrences)
... this word. It may be the hooting or tawny owl (Syrnium aluco), which is
common in Egypt and in many parts of Palestine. This verse ...
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Lion (92 Occurrences)
... the tail. The color is a tawny yellow or yellowish brown; the mane is darker,
and the terminal tuft of the tail is black. In one ...
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Gazelle (12 Occurrences)
... The general coloration is tawny, but it is creamy white below and on the rump,
and has a narrow white line from above the eye to the nostril. ...
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Fox (2 Occurrences)
... Tristram, for instance, distinguishes the Egyptian fox, Vulpes nilotica, of Southern
Palestine, and the tawny fox, Vulpes flavescens, of the North and East It ...
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Taw (1 Occurrence)

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Pygarg (1 Occurrence)
... Its colour is pure white, with the exception of a short black mane, and a tinge
of tawny on the shoulders and back.", Tristram's Natural History. ...
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Bozez (1 Occurrence)
... it may owe its name, "shining." "The contrast is surprising and picturesque between
the dark coal color of the south side, and the ruddy or tawny tints of the ...
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