What is the meaning of Brown?

  • (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.
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MLAWebster's. "brown" 27 May 2011. Web. 21 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/brown/definitions/1982769>
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