Brown

The color brown usually relates to illness or materialism.

Dictionary definition

adj. 1: of a color similar to that of wood or earth [syn: brown, brownish, chocolate-brown, dark-brown]
2: (of skin) deeply suntanned [syn: brown, browned]
n. 1: an orange of low brightness and saturation [syn: brown, brownness]
2: Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858) [syn: Brown, Robert Brown]
3: abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859) [syn: Brown, John Brown]
4: a university in Rhode Island [syn: Brown University, Brown]
v. 1: fry in a pan until it changes color; "brown the meat in the pan"
2: make brown in color; "the draught browned the leaves on the trees in the yard" [syn: embrown, brown]