maroon

1. Maroon
   A brownish or dull red of any description, esp. of a scarlet cast rather than approaching crimson or purple.
2. Maroon
   An explosive shell. See Marron, 3.
3. Maroon
   Having the color called maroon. See 4th Maroon.
4. Maroon
   In the West Indies and Guiana, a fugitive slave, or a free negro, living in the mountains.
5. Maroon
   To put (a person) ashore on a desolate island or coast and leave him to his fate.

1. maroon
   Very dark crimson or red. See II., 2.
2. (n) maroon
   A kind of sweet chestnut produced in southern Europe, and known elsewhere as the French or Italian chestnut, having a single kernel and attaining a large size from the fact that the other two seeds of the involucre or bur are abortive. It is largely used for food by the poor in the countries where it is produced.
3. (n) maroon
   A generic name for any pure or crimson red of very low luminosity. The color of a chestnut is yellower.
4. (n) maroon
   In dyeing, a coal-tar coloring matter obtained by purifying the resinous matters formed in the manufacture of magenta.
5. (n) maroon
   In pyrotechnics, a small cubical box of pasteboard filled with gunpowder and wrapped round with two or three layers of strong twine, used to imitate the report of a cannon. Maroons are primed with a short piece of quick-match, inserted in a hole punctured in one of the corners, and are usually exploded in batteries to produce the effect of cannonading, as in combinations of fireworks. Also marron.
6. (n) maroon
   One of a class of negroes, originally fugitive slaves, living in the wilder parts of Jamaica and Dutch Guiana. In both of these localities they were often at war with the whites, but were never fully subdued; and in the latter country, where they are called bush-negroes, they still form a large independent community professing a mongrel species of paganism. Maroons are found also in some of the other West Indian islands.
7. (n) maroon
   One who is left on a desolate island as a punishment.
8. maroon
   Same as feral, 2.
9. maroon
   To put ashore and leave on a desolate island by way of punishment, as was done by the bucaneers, etc.
10. maroon
    In the southern United States, to camp out after the manner of the West Indian maroons; make a pleasure-excursion of some duration, with provision for living in camp.

1. (n) Maroon
   ma-rōōn′ a brownish crimson.
2. (n) Maroon
   ma-rōōn′ a fugitive slave living on the mountains, in the West Indies
3. (v.t) Maroon
   to put on shore on a desolate island

brownish-red strand

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