maroon

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To put ashore on a deserted island or coast and intentionally abandon.
2. v. To abandon or isolate with little hope of ready rescue or escape: The travelers were marooned by the blizzard.
3. n. A fugitive Black slave in the West Indies in the 17th and 18th centuries.
4. n. A descendant of such a slave.
5. n. A person who is marooned, as on an island.
6. n. A dark reddish brown to dark purplish red.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Very dark crimson or red. See II., 2.
2. n. 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. A generic name for any pure or crimson red of very low luminosity. The color of a chestnut is yellower.
4. n. In dyeing, a coal-tar coloring matter obtained by purifying the resinous matters formed in the manufacture of magenta.
5. n. 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. 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. One who is left on a desolate island as a punishment.
8. Same as feral, 2.
9. To put ashore and leave on a desolate island by way of punishment, as was done by the bucaneers, etc.
10. 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.

Wiktionary

1. n. nautical A rocket fired to summon the crew of a lifeboat.
2. n. slang, derogatory An idiot; a fool.
3. n. An escaped negro slave of the Caribbean and the Americas or a descendant of escaped slaves.
4. n. A castaway; a person who has been marooned.
5. adj. Associated with Maroon culture, communities or peoples.
6. v. To abandon in a remote, desolate place, as on a deserted island.
7. n. A dark red, somewhat brownish, color.
8. adj. Of a maroon color

GNU Webster's 1913

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

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a person who is stranded (as on an island)
2. v. leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue
3. adj. of dark brownish to purplish red
4. n. a dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red color
5. n. an exploding firework used as a warning signal
6. v. leave stranded on a desert island without resources