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To give a brown color to; to imbrown. Summer suns embrown the laboring swain. Fenton.

spleasure, severity, or sternness; to scowl; to put on a stern, grim, or surly look. The frowning wrinkle of her brow. Shak.

In a frowning manner.

Frowning; scowling. [Obs.] Her frowny mother's ragged shoulder. Sir F. Palgrave.

Having reached the limits of growth; mature. "Full-grown wings." Lowell.

Overgrown with grass; as, a grass-grown road.

p. p. of Grow.

Of a clear tint of brown, resembling brown human hair. It is composed of equal proportions of red and green.

To make brown; to obscure; to darken; to tan; as, features imbrowned by exposure. The mountain mass by scorching skies imbrowned. Byron.

Having an enlarged liver. Dunglison.

Having lungs that adhere to the pleura.

Overgrown with moss.

The condition or quality of being narrow.

Brown as a nut long kept and dried. "The spicy nutbrown ale." Milton.

To frown down; to overbear by frowning. Shak.

To wet or drench to excess. [Obs.] W. Browne.

Clad or crowned with pine trees; as, pine-clad hills.

To whisper. [obs.] Gower. Another rouned to his fellow low. Chaucer.

Of a rich dark brown color, like the fur of the fur seal after it is dyed.

Bearing a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned building.