[broun] 
noun, adjective, -er, -est, verb | 1. | a dark tertiary color with a yellowish or reddish hue. |
| 2. | a person whose skin has a dusky or light-brown pigmentation. |
| 3. | of the color brown. |
| 4. | (of animals) having skin, fur, hair, or feathers of that color. |
| 5. | sunburned or tanned. |
| 6. | (of persons) having the skin naturally pigmented a brown color. |
| 7. | to make or become brown. |
| 8. | to fry, sauté, or scorch slightly in cooking: to brown onions before adding them to the stew. The potatoes browned in the pan. |
| 9. | brown out, to subject to a brownout: The power failure browned out the southern half of the state. |
| 10. | browned off, Slang. angry; fed up. |
| 11. | do it up brown, Informal. to do thoroughly: When they entertain, they really do it up brown. |
Brown (broun), Michael. Born 1941.
American geneticist. He shared a 1985 Nobel Prize for discoveries related to cholesterol metabolism.