'Mars brown' definitions:

Definition of 'Mars brown'

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  • Mars \Mars\ (m[aum]rz), prop. n. [L. Mars, gen. Martis, archaic Mavors, gen. Mavortis.]
  • 1. (Rom. Myth.) The god of war and husbandry. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Astron.) One of the planets of the solar system, the fourth in order from the sun, or the next beyond the earth, having a diameter of about 4,200 miles, a period of
  • 687 days, and a mean distance of 141,000,000 miles. It is conspicuous for the redness of its light. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Alchemy) The metallic element iron, the symbol of which [male] was the same as that of the planet Mars. [Archaic] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • Mars brown, a bright, somewhat yellowish, brown. [1913 Webster]