Thesaurus: brown

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1. superl. Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.
2. 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.
3. v. t. To make brown or dusky.
4. v. t. To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour.
5. v. t. To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface.
6. v. i. To become brown.
7. adj. of a color similar to that of wood or earth
8. adj. (of skin) deeply suntanned
9. n. an orange of low brightness and saturation
10. v. fry in a pan until it changes color
11. v. make brown in color