embrown

verb

1. (also, figuratively, literary, poetic, transitive)To make (something) brown; to brown.

   “For time ſhall with his ready pencil ſtand; / Retouch your figures with his ripening hand; / Mellow your colors, and imbrown the teint; / Add every grace, which time alone can grant; / To future ages ſhall your fame convey, / And give more beauties than he takes away.”

   “For blight of the season embrowneth the bloom, / And time winnows falshood, like chaff, as it flies: […]”

   “The mountain-moss by scorching skies imbrown'd, […]”

   “The heat embrowneth the harvests. They fall under the edge of the sickle.”

   “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.”

2. (also, figuratively, literary, poetic, transitive)To make (something) dark or dusky (“having a rather dark shade of colour”); to brown, to darken.

   “[…] Nature boon / Powrd forth profuſe on Hill and Dale and Plaine, / Both where the morning Sun firſt warmly ſmote / The open field, and where the unpierc't ſhade / Imbround the noontide Bowrs: […]”

   “And thy dark Pencil, Midnight! darker ſtill / In Melancholy dipt, embrovvns the vvhole.”

   “No deeper clouds the grove embrowned, / No nether thunders shook the ground; […]”

3. (also, figuratively, intransitive, literary, poetic)To become or make brown; to brown.

   “[O]n the board diſplay'd / The ready meal before Ulyſſes lay'd. / (VVith flour imbrovvn'd) next mingled vvine yet nevv, / And luſcious as the Bee's nectareous devv: […]”

   “A greater opening ofttimes hedges up / With but a little forkful of his thorns / The villager, what time the grape imbrowns, […]”

4. (also, figuratively, intransitive, literary, poetic)To become or make dark or dusky; to brown, to darken.

   “Under theſe Auſpices, Jamblicus compoſed the Book juſt before mentioned, Of the Mytſeries; meaning the profound and recondite Doctrines of the Egyptian Philoſophy: VVhich, at Bottom, is nothing elſe but the genuine Greek Philoſophy, imbrovvned vvith the Fanaticiſm of Eatſern Cant.”

   “Now was the day departing, and the air, / Imbrown'd with shadows, from their toils releas'd / All animals on earth; […]”