Brown

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vi To become brown.

II. Brown ·vt To make brown or dusky.

III. Brown ·vt To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour.

IV. Brown ·superl Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.

V. Brown ·vt To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface.

VI. Brown ·noun A dark color inclining to red or yellow, resulting from the mixture of red and black, or of red, black, and yellow; a tawny, dusky hue.

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