embrown

1. (transitive)Examples: "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, […]"Synonyms: brownifyalsofigurativelyliterarypoetictransitive

2. (transitive)Examples: "[…] 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; […]"alsofigurativelyliterarypoetictransitive

3. (intransitive)Examples: "[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, […]"Synonyms: brownifyalsofigurativelyintransitiveliterarypoetic

4. (intransitive)Examples: "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; […]"alsofigurativelyintransitiveliterarypoetic