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brown
Pronunciation: (broun), [key]
—n., adj., -er, -est,
—v.
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n.
1. a dark tertiary color with a yellowish or reddish hue.
2. a person whose skin has a dusky or light-brown pigmentation.
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adj.
1. of the color brown.
2. (of animals) having skin, fur, hair, or feathers of that color.
3. sunburned or tanned.
4. (of persons) having the skin naturally pigmented a brown color.
5. do it up brown, Informal.to do thoroughly:
When they entertain, they really do it up brown.
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v.t., v.i.
1. to make or become brown.
2. to fry, sauté, or scorch slightly in cooking:
to brown onions before adding them to the stew. The potatoes browned in the pan.
3. browned off, Slang.angry; fed up.
4. brown out, to subject to a brownout:
The power failure browned out the southern half of the state. Brown
Pronunciation: (broun), [key]—
n.
1. Charles Brock•den Pronunciation: (brok'dun), [key] 1771–1810, U.S. novelist.
2. Edmund Gerald, Jr. (Jerry), born 1938, U.S. politician: governor of California 1975–83.
3. James Nathaniel (Jimmy), born 1936, U.S. football player and actor.
4. John (“Old Brown of Osawatomie”), 1800–59, U.S. abolitionist: leader of the attack at Harpers Ferry, where he was captured, tried for treason, and hanged.
5. Olympia, 1835–1926, U.S. women's-rights activist and Universalist minister: first American woman ordained by a major church.
6. Robert, 1773–1858, Scottish botanist.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
