noun. Any of a group of colors between red and yellow in hue that are medium to low in lightness and low to moderate in saturation.

adjective. Of the color brown.

adjective. undefined

adjective. Having a brownish or dark skin color.

adjective. Of or being a person of nonwhite origin.

adjective. Deeply suntanned.

transitive & intransitive verb . To make or become brown.

transitive & intransitive verb . To cook until brown.

phrasal verb. To make angry or irritated.

noun. A brown produced upon textile material with catechu. Also called cutch brown. See catechu.

To become brown.

To make brown or dusky.

Specifically— To produce a brown color in by exposure to heat, as of meat, bread, etc., to that of a fire in roasting or toasting, or of the skin to that of the sun. To give a brown luster to (articles of iron, as gun-barrels, etc.), by applying certain preparations.

Of a dark or dusky color, inclining to redness or yellowness.

to deceive him; take him in.

noun. A dark colorinclined to red or yellow. It may be obtained by mixing red, black, and yellow.

noun. A halfpenny. [English slang.]

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.

intransitive verb. To become brown.

transitive verb. To make brown or dusky.

transitive verb. To make brown by scorching slightly.

transitive verb. To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface.

adjective. Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.

adjective. the old regulation flintlock smoothbore musket, with bronzed barrel, formerly used in the British army.

adjective. Dark colored bread made of rye meal and Indian meal, or of wheat and rye or Indian; rye and Indian bread.

adjective. wood coal. See Lignite.

adjective. the hydrous iron oxide, limonite, which has a brown streak. See Limonite.

adjective. undefined

adjective. See under Holland.

adjective. dark colored paper, esp. coarse wrapping paper, made of unbleached materials.

adjective. a ferruginous variety of dolomite, in part identical with ankerite.

adjective. See Brownstone.

adjective. a strong kind of porter or malt liquor.

adjective. a state of mental abstraction or serious reverie.

noun. A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.

noun. One of the colour balls used in snooker with a value of 4 points.

noun. Black tar heroin.

adjective. Having a brown colour.

adjective. Gloomy.

verb. To become brown.

verb. To cook something until it becomes brown.

verb. To tan.

noun. Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858)

noun. abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859)

verb. fry in a pan until it changes color

adjective. of a color similar to that of wood or earth

adjective. (of skin) deeply suntanned

verb. make brown in color

noun. a university in Rhode Island

noun. an orange of low brightness and saturation

"The wide acceptation of the term brown has occasioned much confusion in the naming of colours, since broken colours in which red, &c. predominate, have been improperly called brown."

Colours  acid alizarin brown  acid brown  alizarin brown  alkali brown  

brown iron ore  brunet  brunette  chromatic  

brunet  burnet  

Browning  browned  

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abolitionist  botanist  color  color in  colorise  

Browne  Down  Downe  Town  around  

clean  dusty  gray  pale  thick  

Argos brown  Bayard  Bordeaux  Cologne brown  Mexican red  

browned  browning  browns