browning

Meanings

Plural: brownings

Noun

• United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926)
• English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning noted for his dramatic monologues (1812-1889)
• English poet best remembered for love sonnets written to her husband Robert Browning (1806-1861)
• cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill
• The act or operation of giving a brown colour, as to gun barrels, cooked food, etc.
• Any of various preparations used to impart a brown colour to gravy, leather, etc.
• A smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster.
• A brown-skinned person.

Verb

• fry in a pan until it changes color
• make brown in color
• present participle and gerund of brown

Synonyms

brown, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, embrown, John M. Browning, John Moses Browning, Robert Browning, toasting

Related Words

brownification, embrowning