brown

brown has 14 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• superl.. Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.
• 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.
• v. t.. To make brown or dusky.
• v. t.. To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour.
• v. t.. To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface.
• v. i.. To become brown.
• n.. a university in Rhode Island
• n.. an orange of low brightness and saturation
• n.. abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859)
• n.. Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858)
• v.. make brown in color; "the draught browned the leaves on the trees in the yard"
• v.. fry in a pan until it changes color; "brown the meat in the pan"