Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Browning"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Browning \Brown"ing\, n.
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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Brown \Brown\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Browned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Browning}.]
1. To make brown or dusky.

A trembling twilight o'er welkin moves, Browns the
dim void and darkens deep the groves. --Barlow.

2. To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or
flour.

3. To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by
forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface. --Ure.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

Browning
n 1: United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic
pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called
`The Peacemaker') (1855-1926) [syn: {Browning}, {John M.
Browning}, {John Moses Browning}]
2: English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning noted
for his dramatic monologues (1812-1889) [syn: {Browning},
{Robert Browning}]
3: English poet best remembered for love sonnets written to her
husband Robert Browning (1806-1861) [syn: {Browning}, {Elizabeth
Barrett Browning}]
4: cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill;
"proper toasting should brown both sides of a piece of
bread" [syn: {toasting}]


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