Brown

1. 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.
2. superl. Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.
3. v. t. To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour.
4. v. t. To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.