1. The process of cooking food until it turns brown, typically to enhance flavour
   "Proper browning adds flavour and texture to meat";
   - toasting

1. English poet best remembered for love sonnets written to her husband Robert Browning (1806-1861)
   - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    
2. English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning noted for his dramatic monologues (1812-1889)
   - Robert Browning
    
3. United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926)
   - John Browning, John M. Browning, John Moses Browning
    
4. A belt-fed machine gun capable of firing more than 500 rounds per minute; used by United States troops in World War II and the Korean War
   - Browning machine gun, Peacemaker

1. (cooking) fry in a pan until it changes colour
   "brown the meat in the pan"
    
2. Make brown in colour
   "the drought browned the leaves on the trees in the yard";
   - embrown

Derived forms: brownings, Brownings

Type of: artificer, color [US], color in [US], colorise [Brit], colorize [US], colour [Brit, Cdn], colour in [Brit, Cdn], colourise [Brit], colourize [Brit, Cdn], cook, cookery, cooking, discoverer, inventor, machine gun, poet, preparation

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