What is "embrown"

Usage examples of "embrown".

After the lapse of ten or fifteen minutes, the green rind embrowns and cracks, showing through the fissures in its sides the milk-white interior.

At the same time the remarkably sharp and elevated roof of the modern palace, covered with lead, upon which glistening encrustations of gilt copper rolled themselves in a thousand fantastic arabesques, that roof so curiously damasked, gracefully lifted itself from amid the embrowned ruins of the ancient building, whose old clumsy towers, bellying like casks, and cracked from top to bottom, were ready to tumble to pieces with age.

Smith, my former friend Stephen’s father,” said Knight, directly he had scanned the embrowned and ruddy features of John.

Instead of the pallid brow, leaden eye, fleshly look, and the red cheek of the wine-bibber and luxurist of the cities, he exhibited the embrowned, thin, but firm and healthy face, and the clear and cheerful complexion of the contented laborer of the country,—tell-tale looks both, which we always encounter with as much secret disgust in the former as we do with involuntary respect in the latter.

Winter, in coming to the country hereabout, advanced in well-marked stages, wherein might have been successively observed the retreat of the snakes, the transformation of the ferns, the filling of the pools, a rising of fogs, the embrowning by frost, the collapse of the fungi, and an obliteration by snow.

The sun had crept round the tree as a last effort before death, and then began to sink, the shearers’ lower parts becoming steeped in embrowning twilight, whilst their heads and shoulders were still enjoying day, touched with a yellow of self-sustained brilliancy that seemed inherent rather than acquired.

The embrowning woods, and swollen rivers, the evening mists, and morning frosts, were welcomed with gratitude.