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Noun browning has 4 senses

Browning, John M. Browning, John Moses Browning - United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926)
--₁ is a kind of inventor, discoverer, artificer
Browning, Robert Browning - English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning noted for his dramatic monologues (1812-1889)
--₂ is a kind of poet
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning - English poet best remembered for love sonnets written to her husband Robert Browning (1806-1861)
--₃ is a kind of poet
toasting, browning - cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill; "proper toasting should brown both sides of a piece of bread"
--₄ is a kind of cooking, cookery, preparation

Verb brown has 1 sense

brown - fry in a pan until it changes color; "brown the meat in the pan"
--₁ is one way to cook

Derived form: noun brown₁
Sample sentence:
The chefs brown the vegetables