brownback
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From brown + back.
Compound parts: brown
back
Inflected forms:
form: brownbacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bird, the dowitcher or red-breasted snipe.
pos: noun
examples: In the fall and winter I shot in the lagoons and in the harbor of Greytown blue-wing and green-wing teal and gadwalls; also sickle-bill curlews, peeps or least sandpipers, and brownbacks or grass birds.
Two "brownbacks," as they are known on Cape Cod where these came from, are shown in Figure 36. The one whose head is held forward represents the male in fall plumage — the back slate gray and the breast a cinnamon pink.
gloss: A postage stamp printed in brown ink, used in the 1890s.
pos: noun
examples: The color work on the postage stamps will not be new to the bureau. In addition to the work which it has done on proprietary stamps, it has mixed and used every shade of color in its other work. Brown was used on the “brownbacks,” green on the "greenbacks;" different blues on customs stamps and on the backs of bonds.
Of course the printers are not all doing the same kind of work: some are printing the greenbacks, some the brownbacks, some the faces, and others the backs and faces, of the revenue stamps.
gloss: A note of scrip printed on brown paper, such as that issued by the city of St. Louis during a financial crisis.
pos: noun
examples: There are greenbacks for one department of the tithing-house, brownbacks for another, and so on. By using this scrip the Church is able to create a market for considerable quantities of the tithing.
These notes were printed on paper the reverse of which was of a brown color, and very soon after their appearance they were nicknamed the brownbacks, and continued to bear this name during the whole time they were in circulation.
A notable instance of this character was the issue by the city in 1873 of the "Brownbacks,” so called, as circulating notes, which were not regarded as a violation of this provision of the charter, and which were retired by the proceeds of a special tax levied and collected for that purpose after the present charter came in force.
The brownbacks come into circulation by creating a debt and involving double interest.
In the emergency of a shortage of cash the city resorted to a temporary issue of scrip called "brownbacks."
In order to prevent consumers from supplementing their current cash allowance out of cash hoards, it would be necessary either to stamp all dollar bills when the scheme is put into operation or to change them completely; e.g., by printing "brownbacks" instead of "greenbacks."
At least two banknotes of the First national Bank of Albion are known to exist today. Both are $10 brownbacks.
Come tomorrow morning you say we are going to have pinkbacks or brownbacks and make everybody turn their currency in to the Federal Government.
As is known, there are two opinions among financial experts and economists:.one holds that without administrative interference in the regulations governing hard currency circulation, which by itself is harmful for the social economy, one cannot achieve financial stabilization; the other, on the opposite, is against any administrative restrictions, and advocates a natural stabilization of the money supply, as a result of which all "greenbacks," "graybacks," and "brownbacks" will disappear from circulation on their own.
Among the large collection of historic criminal daguerreotypes, tintypes, and ambrotypes on display was that of Louis Degurie, who was one of the first to use photography to make counterfeit "brownbacks," in 1862.
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