Wordnet 3.0
VERB (2)
1.
cause to darken;
2.
make brown in color;
- Example: "the draught browned the leaves on the trees in the yard"[syn: embrown, brown]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Embrown \Em*brown"\, v. t. [Pref. em- (L. in) + brown.]
To give a brown color to; to imbrown.
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Summer suns embrown the laboring swain. --Fenton.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
embrown
v 1: cause to darken
2: make brown in color; "the draught browned the leaves on the
trees in the yard" [syn: embrown, brown]