The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Brown \Brown\, 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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Brown \Brown\ (broun), a. [Compar. Browner; superl.
   Brownest.] [OE. brun, broun, AS. br?n; akin to D. bruin,
   OHG. br?n, Icel. br?nn, Sw. brun, Dan. bruun, G. braun, Lith.
   brunas, Skr. babhru. [root]93, 253. Cf. Bruin, Beaver,
   Burnish, Brunette.]
   Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or
   yellow.
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         Cheeks brown as the oak leaves.          --Longfellow.
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   Brown Bess, the old regulation flintlock smoothbore musket,
      with bronzed barrel, formerly used in the British army.

   Brown bread
   (a) Dark colored bread; esp. a kind made of unbolted wheat
       flour, sometimes called in the United States Graham
       bread. "He would mouth with a beggar though she smelt
       brown bread and garlic." --Shak.
   (b) Dark colored bread made of rye meal and Indian meal, or
       of wheat and rye or Indian; rye and Indian bread. [U.S.]


   Brown coal, wood coal. See Lignite.

   Brown hematite or Brown iron ore (Min.), the hydrous iron
      oxide, limonite, which has a brown streak. See Limonite.


   Brown holland. See under Holland.

   Brown paper, dark colored paper, esp. coarse wrapping
      paper, made of unbleached materials.

   Brown spar (Min.), a ferruginous variety of dolomite, in
      part identical with ankerite.

   Brown stone. See Brownstone.

   Brown stout, a strong kind of porter or malt liquor.

   Brown study, a state of mental abstraction or serious
      reverie. --W. Irving.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Brown \Brown\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Browned; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Browning.]
   1. To make brown or dusky.
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            A trembling twilight o'er welkin moves,
            Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves.
                                                  --Barlow.
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   2. To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or
      flour.
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   3. To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by
      forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface. --Ure.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Brown \Brown\, v. i.
   To become brown.
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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

165 Moby Thesaurus words for "brown":
   Argos brown, Bordeaux, Cologne brown, Mexican red, Roman umber,
   Saint Benoit, Turkey umber, acorn, alesan, alizarin brown,
   anthracene brown, anthragallol, antique brown, antique gold,
   autumn leaf, bake, barbecue, baste, becloud, bedarken, bedim,
   begloom, beige, biscuit, bister, black, black out, blacken, blanch,
   block the light, blot out, boil, bone brown, bracken, braise, brew,
   broil, bronze, brown race, browning, brownish, brownish-yellow,
   brownness, brunet, bunny brown, burn, burnt almond, cafe noir,
   cast a shadow, chocolate, cinnamon, cloud, cloud over, cocoa,
   cocoa-brown, coconut, coddle, coffee, coffee-brown, cook, curry,
   darken, darken over, dead leaf, devil, dim, dim out, do,
   do to perfection, doeskin, drab, dun, dun-brown, dun-drab, eclipse,
   ecru, embrown, encloud, encompass with shadow, fawn, fawn-colored,
   fire, foliage brown, fox, fricassee, frizz, frizzle, fry, fuscous,
   gloom, grege, griddle, grill, hazel, heat, infuscate, infuscation,
   khaki, leather, lurid, maple sugar, mummy, murk, negro, nut-brown,
   obfuscate, obnubilate, obscure, obumbrate, occult, occultate,
   olive brown, olive-brown, olive-drab, oriole, otter brown,
   oven-bake, overcast, overcloud, overshadow, pan, pan-broil,
   parboil, partridge, philamot, poach, prepare, prepare food,
   raw sienna, raw umber, resorcin dark brown, roast, rust, saute,
   scallop, seal, seal-brown, sear, sepia, shade, shadow, shirr,
   simmer, snuff-colored, somber, sorrel, steam, stew, stir-fry,
   sunburn, suntan, tan, taupe, tawny, tenne, terra sienna,
   terra umbra, toast, toast-brown, topaz, umber, umber-colored,
   walnut, walnut-brown, yellowish-brown