Emily Dickinson Lexicon

brown, adj. [OE.] (webplay: deep, dusky, redness).

1. Tree-colored; color of dead leaves in autumn; hue of declining vegetation in the fall season; mixture of red, black, and yellow.
2. Earth-colored; hue of dirt; [fig.] ripe; mature; ready to harvest.
3. Dark; twilit; benighted; crepuscular; [fig.] gloomy; serious; grim; dismal; cheerless; funereal.
4. Not blue, green, or hazel colored; darker-colored iris; [fig.] sad; hopeless; lonely; pitiful; unhappy; lackluster; without light.