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noun

Browning n.

The act or operation of giving a brown color, as to gun barrels, etc.

(Masonry) A smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster.

verb

Brown v. t. (past & past part. browned; pres. part. browning)

To make brown or dusky. "A trembling twilight o'er welkin moves, Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves."

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

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

Brown v. i. To become brown.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Browning" Quotes from Famous Books

... Demogorgon, and if Prometheus does not pull down Jupiter himself, no one else will. It would be exasperating, if it were not so funny, to see these poets leading their heroes through blood and destruction to the conclusion that, as Browning's David puts it (David of all people!), "All's Love; yet ...

— The Perfect Wagnerite - A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring • George Bernard Shaw

... by advising narrative poetry for the neophyte, and I shall persevere with the prescription. I mean narrative poetry in the restricted sense; for epic poetry is narrative. Paradise Lost is narrative; so is The Prelude. I suggest neither of these great works. My choice falls on Elizabeth Browning's Aurora Leigh. If you once work yourself "into" this poem, interesting yourself primarily (as with Wordsworth) in the events of the story, and not allowing yourself to be obsessed by the fact that what you are reading ...

— Literary Taste: How to Form It • Arnold Bennett

... place was till a few years since an Austrian fortress on the Mincio. Of Giulio Romano, and his works to Mantua, a good many have heard; and there is something known to the reader of the punctuated edition of Browning about Sordello. But of the Gonzagas of Mantua, and their duchy, what do ...

— Italian Journeys • William Dean Howells

... done less artistically every day upon the vaudeville stage. We love to recognize types; and what Browning said of beauty: ...

— Are You A Bromide? • Gelett Burgess

... golf stockings and sturdy shoes covering her legs and feet, she presented a figure that caused more than one heart to thump, more than one head to turn, more than one pair of eyes to follow her as she went about her work. Her cheeks and throat and breast and arms were browning under the fire of the noonday sun, her eyes glowed with the fervour of enthusiasm; her voice was ever cheerful and her smile, though touched with the blight that lay upon the soul of all these castaways, was unfailingly ...

— West Wind Drift • George Barr McCutcheon

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