Brown

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1. Adjective form

Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.

2. Noun

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. Verb

To make brown or dusky.

4. Verb

To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour.

5. Verb

To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface.

6. Verb

To become brown.
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