browning Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926)
    John M. Browning; John Moses Browning.
  2. noun English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning noted for his dramatic monologues (1812-1889)
    Robert Browning.
  3. noun English poet best remembered for love sonnets written to her husband Robert Browning (1806-1861)
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
  4. noun cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill
    toasting.
    • proper toasting should brown both sides of a piece of bread
  5. verb fry in a pan until it changes color
    brown.
    • brown the meat in the pan
  6. verb make brown in color
    embrown; brown.
    • the draught browned the leaves on the trees in the yard

WordNet

Brown"ing noun
Definitions
  1. The act or operation of giving a brown color, as to gun barrels, etc.
  2. (Masonry) A smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster.

Webster 1913