embrown

To make (something) brown; to brown.

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: […]

To make (something) dark or dusky (“having a rather dark shade of colour”); to brown, to darken.

[…] 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.

To become or make brown; to brown.

[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, […]

To become or make dark or dusky; to brown, to darken.

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; […]