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Webster 1913 Edition
Embrown
Em-brown′
,Verb.
T.
[Pref.
em-
(L. in
) + brown
.] To give a brown color to; to imbrown.
Summer suns
embrown
the laboring swain. Fenton.
Definition 2024
embrown
embrown
English
Verb
embrown (third-person singular simple present embrowns, present participle embrowning, simple past and past participle embrowned)
- (transitive) To make brown or dusky.
- 1825, Walter Scott, The Talisman, A. L. Burt Company (1832?), 26:
- His features were small, well-formed, and delicate, though deeply embrowned by the Eastern sun, and terminated by a flowing and curled black beard, which seemed trimmed with peculiar care.
- 1825, Walter Scott, The Talisman, A. L. Burt Company (1832?), 26:
- (intransitive) To become brown or dusky.
- (transitive) To darken, make dark.
- (intransitive) To darken, become dark.