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embrown, v.|ɛmˈbraʊn|
Also 7 imbroun. 7–9 imbrown.
[f. en- + brown a.; cf. Fr. embrunir, It. imbrunire, which are used in sense 1.]
1. trans. To darken, make dusky. Chiefly poet.
1667Milton P.L. iv. 246 The unpierc't shade Imbround the noontide Bowrs. 1742Young Nt. Th. v. 74 Thy dark pencil, midnight..embrowns the whole. 1750G. Hughes Barbados 23 Deep chasms..are imbrowned with the thick foliage of lofty trees. 1813Scott Rokeby iii. ix, No deeper clouds the grove embrown'd. 1814Cary Dante's Inferno ii. 2 The air, Imbrown'd with shadows.
fig.1738Warburton Div. Legat. I. 430 Greek Philosophy, imbrowned with the Fanaticism of Eastern Cant.
2. To make brown. Also (rarely) intr. for refl.
1725Pope Odyss. xiv. 93 The ready meal before Ulysses lay'd, With flour imbrown'd. 1757Dyer Fleece i. 394 Departing Autumn all embrowns The frequent-bitten fields. 1796D'Israeli Lit. Recreation 211 A painting, which is just embrowned and mellowed by the hand of time. 1835Lytton Rienzi ii. i, The suns of Italy had but little embrowned his clear and healthful complexion. 1867Longfellow Dante's Purg. iv. v. 21 What time the grape imbrowns.
fig.a1824D'Israeli Cur. Lit. (1858) III. 499 His own uncourtly style is embrowned with the tint of a century old. |