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adjective

browned adj. Having a tan color from exposure to the sun; of skin color.

Synonyms: suntanned, tanned.

verb

Brown v. t. (past & past part. browned; pres. part. browning)

To make brown or dusky. "A trembling twilight o'er welkin moves, Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves."

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

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

Brown v. i. To become brown.

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Etymology of 'Browned'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Browned" Quotes from Famous Books

... did. They were of heavy silver, with a quaint monogram on the handles of the forks. No doubt heirlooms of several generations back. Without more ado the two friends began with hearty appetites on the two portions of steaks, the delicately browned potatoes, and the eggs. Everything had a delicious taste, for, aside from their hunger, the meal ...

— Frontier Boys in Frisco • Wyn Roosevelt

... to-day that's here,' he said. 'I will read thee a verse from Lucretius, and you shall tell me the history of that fourth capon'—he pointed to a browned carcase that, upon the spit, whirled its elbows a full third longer ...

— Privy Seal - His Last Venture • Ford Madox Ford

... which makes food at once essential and loathsome; for despair has no proper hunger in it. The room seemed as empty as his life. There was nothing for his eyes to rest upon but those bundles and bundles of dust-browned papers on the shelves before him. What were they all about? He understood that they were his father's: now that he was dead, it would be no sacrilege to look at them. Nobody cared about them. He would see at ...

— Robert Falconer • George MacDonald

... arms and back were carved great dragons. Arthur wore a gold crown which was not brighter than his own beautiful hair and beard. His blue eyes were as calm and clear as the sky in summer time. His trusty knights stood about him on each side of the throne. The tallest of these, who had a worn, browned face, and piercing dark eyes, under frowning brows, must be, Gareth knew, ...

— King Arthur and His Knights • Maude L. Radford

... could Marise have let it and all the rest of the lore of civilization drop for these coarse occupations of hers, now? How could she have let life coarsen her, as it had, how could she have fallen into such common ways, with her sun-browned hair, and her roughened hands, and her inexactly adjusted dresses, and the fatal middle-aged lines beginning to show from the corner of the ear down into the neck, and not an effort made to stop them. But as to wrinkles, of course a woman as unrestrained as ...

— The Brimming Cup • Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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