Brown

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. 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.
  • adj. Of the color brown.
  • adj. Having a brownish or dark skin color.
  • adj. Often Offensive Of or being a person of nonwhite origin.
  • adj. Deeply suntanned.
  • v. To make or become brown.
  • v. To cook until brown.
  • phrasal-verb. brown off Chiefly British Slang To make angry or irritated.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
  • n. One of the colour balls used in snooker with a value of 4 points.
  • n. Black tar heroin.
  • adj. Having a brown colour.
  • adj. Gloomy.
  • v. To become brown.
  • v. To cook something until it becomes brown.
  • v. To tan.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.
  • 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.
  • v. To make brown or dusky.
  • v. To make brown by scorching slightly.
  • v. To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface.
  • verb-intransitive. To become brown.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of a dark or dusky color, inclining to redness or yellowness.
  • to deceive him; take him in.
  • n. A dark colorinclined to red or yellow. It may be obtained by mixing red, black, and yellow.
  • n. A halfpenny. [English slang.]
  • 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.
  • n. A brown produced upon textile material with catechu. Also called cutch brown. See catechu.
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  • n. Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858)
  • n. abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859)
  • v. fry in a pan until it changes color
  • adj. of a color similar to that of wood or earth
  • adj. (of skin) deeply suntanned
  • v. make brown in color
  • n. a university in Rhode Island
  • n. an orange of low brightness and saturation
  • Equivalent
    chromatic    brunet    brunette    brown iron ore   
    Verb Form
    browned    browning    browns   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Form
    browned    Browning   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    lurid    foxy    hazel    chelidonian    bay    Bayard    brownish    browny    brunneous    ferruginous   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Browne    Down    Downe    Town    around    clown    crown    crowne    down    downe   
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    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    gray    pale    thick    clean    dusty