embrown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈbɹaʊn/
ipa: /ɛm-/
ipa: /əmˈbɹaʊn/
ipa: /ɛm-/
rhymes: -aʊn
Forms: form: embrowns
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Etymology: PIE word
 *h₁én
From em- (variant of en- (prefix with the sense ‘to bring to a certain condition or state’)) + brown (“having a brown colour”, adjective).
Cognates
* French embrunir
* Italian imbrunire
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “Epistle the Fourteenth. To Sir Godfrey Kneller, Principal Painter to His Majesty.”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume II, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC, page 201:
text: For blight of the season embrowneth the bloom, / And time winnows falshood, like chaff, as it flies: […]
ref: 1799, George Davies Harley, “The Reproof”, in Ballad Stories, Sonnets, &c, volume I, Bath, Somerset: […] R. Cruttwell; and sold by C[harles] Dilly, […], and W[illiam] Miller, […], →OCLC, stanza 2, page 22:
text: The mountain-moss by scorching skies imbrown'd, […]
ref: 1812, Lord Byron, “Canto I”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, stanza XIX, page 17:
text: The heat embrowneth the harvests. They fall under the edge of the sickle.
ref: 1825, “Chapter XXXIX. Intitled, The Troops; Revealed at Mecca.”, in George Sale, transl., The Koran, Commonly Called the Alcoran of Mohammed, Translated into English Immediately from the Original Arabic; […], new edition, volume II, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Thomas Tegg, […], footnote ‡, page 327:
text: 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.
ref: 1825 June 22, [Walter Scott], chapter II, in Tales of the Crusaders. […], volume III (The Talisman), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 31:
text: His fair hair waved long and freely over a white and unwrinkled forehead: the life of a camp and the suns of Italy had but little embrowned his clear and healthful complexion, which retained much of the bloom of youth.
ref: 1835, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], “The Knight of Provençe, and His Proposal”, in Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes. […], volume I, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, book II (The Revolution), page 184:
text: He was looking quite a different man to what I had left him; embrowned, sparkles in his eyes, so languid before.
ref: 1863 November – 1864 February, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, “Cousin Phillis. Part II.”, in Cousin Phillis. And Other Tales. […], illustrated edition, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1865, →OCLC, page 66:
synonyms: brownify
glosses: To make (something) brown; to brown.
examples: text: […] 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: […]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 242–246:
text: And thy dark Pencil, Midnight! darker ſtill / In Melancholy dipt, embrovvns the vvhole.
ref: 1743, [Edward Young], “Night the Fifth. The Relapse. […]”, in The Complaint. Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality. Night the Fifth, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley […], →OCLC, page 11:
text: No deeper clouds the grove embrowned, / No nether thunders shook the ground; […]
ref: 1813, Walter Scott, “Canto Third”, in Rokeby; a Poem, Edinburgh: […] [F]or John Ballantyne and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; by James Ballantyne and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza IX, page 115:
glosses: To make (something) dark or dusky (“having a rather dark shade of colour”); to brown, to darken.
examples: text: [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: […]
ref: 1725, Homer, “Book XIV”, in [Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume III, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC, page 238, lines 91–94:
text: A greater opening ofttimes hedges up / With but a little forkful of his thorns / The villager, what time the grape imbrowns, […]
ref: 1867, Dante Alighieri, “Canto IV”, in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, transl., The Divine Comedy, volume II (Purgatorio), Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 21, lines 19–21:
synonyms: brownify
glosses: To become or make brown; to brown.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1738, William Warburton, “Section IV”, in The Divine Legation of Moses […], volume I, London: […] Fletcher Gyles, […], →OCLC, book III, page 405:
text: Now was the day departing, and the air, / Imbrown'd with shadows, from their toils releas'd / All animals on earth; […]
ref: 1814, Dante Alighieri, “Canto II”, in H[enry] F[rancis] Cary, transl., The Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, of Dante Alighieri. […], volume I (Hell), London: […] [J. Barfield] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 5, lines 1–3:
glosses: To become or make dark or dusky; to brown, to darken.
Derived terms: word: embrowned
word: embrowning
word: embrownment
Related terms: word: brown
word: brownify
word: browning
word: brownish