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Browning

noun

United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926). Synonyms: John M. Browning, John Moses Browning.

English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning noted for his dramatic monologues (1812-1889). Synonym: Robert Browning.

English poet best remembered for love sonnets written to her husband Robert Browning (1806-1861). Synonym: Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill. Synonym: toasting.

Brown

verb

(past & past part. browned; pres. part. browning)

Fry in a pan until it changes color.

Make brown in color. Synonym: embrown.

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"Browning" Quotes from Famous Books

... Browning, the worst of all the boys Who had a sure-nuff cannon that made all kinds of noise; And when the cannon wouldn't go he blew into the muzzle, But what became of Willie's teeth has ...

— Poems for Pale People - A Volume of Verse • Edwin C. Ranck

... almost allowed two or three of them to hope that they might become her intimates, and made excursions to New York with them, and lunched in fashionable restaurants. Their range of discussion included babies and Robert Browning, the modern novel and the best matinee. It would be interesting to know why she treated them, on the whole, like travellers met by chance in a railroad station, from whom she was presently forever to depart. The time and manner of this departure ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... generation pretend to confuse their immediate predecessors with Ruskin and Carlyle, with Browning, Emerson, Hawthorne, Longfellow, and Matthew Arnold, they are merely strategic. For it is still dangerous to assault the citadels of the great Victorians with no greater books than the youthful volumes of 1918-1921, no matter how many breaches the war has ...

— Definitions • Henry Seidel Canby

... and the ruin of Parnell by a woman. And, indeed, I have no doubt whatever that, some centuries hence, the students of folk-lore will refuse altogether to believe that Elizabeth Barrett eloped with Robert Browning, and will prove their point up to the hilt by the unquestionable fact that the whole fiction of the period was full of such elopements ...

— Heretics • Gilbert K. Chesterton

... enemies we can guard against. The well-meaning rector of the little parish of Woodgates, England, and several of Robert Browning's local admirers have recently busied themselves in erecting a tablet to the memory of "the first known forefather of the poet." This lately turned up ancestor, who does not date very far back, was also named Robert Browning, and is described on the mural marble as "formerly ...

— Ponkapog Papers • Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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