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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Brown \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. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Brown \Brown\ (broun), a. [Compar. {Browner}; superl. {Brownest}.] [OE. brun, broun, AS. br?n; akin to D. bruin, OHG. br?n, Icel. br?nn, Sw. brun, Dan. bruun, G. braun, Lith. brunas, Skr. babhru. [root]93, 253. Cf. {Bruin}, {Beaver}, {Burnish}, {Brunette}.] Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow. [1913 Webster] Cheeks brown as the oak leaves. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] {Brown Bess}, the old regulation flintlock smoothbore musket, with bronzed barrel, formerly used in the British army. {Brown bread} (a) Dark colored bread; esp. a kind made of unbolted wheat flour, sometimes called in the United States Graham bread. "He would mouth with a beggar though she smelt brown bread and garlic." --Shak. (b) Dark colored bread made of rye meal and Indian meal, or of wheat and rye or Indian; rye and Indian bread. [U.S.] {Brown coal}, wood coal. See {Lignite}. {Brown hematite} or {Brown iron ore} (Min.), the hydrous iron oxide, limonite, which has a brown streak. See {Limonite}. {Brown holland}. See under {Holland}. {Brown paper}, dark colored paper, esp. coarse wrapping paper, made of unbleached materials. {Brown spar} (Min.), a ferruginous variety of dolomite, in part identical with ankerite. {Brown stone}. See {Brownstone}. {Brown stout}, a strong kind of porter or malt liquor. {Brown study}, a state of mental abstraction or serious reverie. --W. Irving. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Brown \Brown\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Browned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Browning}.] 1. To make brown or dusky. [1913 Webster] A trembling twilight o'er welkin moves, Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves. --Barlow. [1913 Webster] 2. To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour. [1913 Webster] 3. To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface. --Ure. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Brown \Brown\, v. i. To become brown. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: brown adj 1: of a color similar to that of wood or earth [syn: {brown}, {brownish}, {chocolate-brown}, {dark-brown}] 2: (of skin) deeply suntanned [syn: {brown}, {browned}] n 1: an orange of low brightness and saturation [syn: {brown}, {brownness}] 2: Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858) [syn: {Brown}, {Robert Brown}] 3: abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859) [syn: {Brown}, {John Brown}] 4: a university in Rhode Island [syn: {Brown University}, {Brown}] v 1: fry in a pan until it changes color; "brown the meat in the pan" 2: make brown in color; "the draught browned the leaves on the trees in the yard" [syn: {embrown}, {brown}]