- (v.t.) To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour.
- (superl.) Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.
- (v.t.) To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface.
- (v.t.) To make brown or dusky.
- (v.i.) To become brown.
- (n.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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