1. (n.) See Picul.

2. (n.) The bark of the oak, and some other trees, bruised and broken by a mill, for tanning hides; -- so called both before and after it has been used. Called also tan bark.

3. (n.) A yellowish-brown color, like that of tan.

4. (n.) A brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun; as, hands covered with tan.

5. (a.) of the color of tan; yellowish-brown.

6. (n.) To convert (the skin of an animal) into leather, as by usual process of steeping it in an infusion of oak or some other bark, whereby it is impregnated with tannin, or tannic acid (which exists in several species of bark), and is thus rendered firm, durable, and in some degree impervious to water.

7. (n.) To make brown; to embrown, as by exposure to the rays of the sun; as, to tan the skin.

8. (v. i.) To get or become tanned.

arrange beige bronze brown brownish brownish-yellow brunet burn chocolate cinnamon clear for action clear the decks cocoa cocoa-brown coffee coffee-brown cure deploy drab dress dress down dun dun-brown dun-drab ecru embrown fawn fawn-colored fix fix up flax fuscous get ready give a dressing-down grege hazel hide infuscate khaki larrup lather leather lick lurid make arrangements make preparations make ready marshal mobilize nut-brown olive-brown olive-drab paddle plan prearrange prep prepare pretreat process provide put in shape ready ready up rust seal seal-brown sepia settle preliminaries snuff-colored sorrel sunburn suntan taupe tawny toast toast-brown treat trim try out umber umber-colored wallop walnut walnut-brown welt whale yellowish-brown