See embrown on Wiktionary
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"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": "[…] 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: […]",
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"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": "And thy dark Pencil, Midnight! darker ſtill / In Melancholy dipt, embrovvns the vvhole.",
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"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:",
"text": "No deeper clouds the grove embrowned, / No nether thunders shook the ground; […]",
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"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: […]",
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"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:",
"text": "A greater opening ofttimes hedges up / With but a little forkful of his thorns / The villager, what time the grape imbrowns, […]",
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"ref": "1738, William Warburton, “Section IV”, in The Divine Legation of Moses […], volume I, London: […] Fletcher Gyles, […], →OCLC, book III, page 405:",
"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.",
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"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:",
"text": "Now was the day departing, and the air, / Imbrown'd with shadows, from their toils releas'd / All animals on earth; […]",
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"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "to make (something) brown — see also brown",
"word": "pruunistama"
},
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make (something) brown — see also brown",
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},
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "to make (something) brown — see also brown",
"word": "embrunir"
},
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"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to make (something) brown — see also brown",
"word": "imbrunìre"
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to make (something) brown — see also brown",
"word": "pociemniać"
},
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"sense": "to become or make brown — see also brown",
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},
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},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to become or make brown — see also brown",
"word": "imbrunìre"
}
],
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}
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