Browning (Amtrak station)
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noun


(1)   Cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill
"Proper toasting should brown both sides of a piece of bread"
(2)   English poet best remembered for love sonnets written to her husband Robert Browning (1806-1861)
(3)   English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning noted for his dramatic monologues (1812-1889)
(4)   United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926)
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Etymology


, a patronymic for a person nicknamed .

Proper noun



  1. John Moses Browning, inventor of handguns
  2. In Europe, a small, semi-automatic handgun. For the first half-century of their manufacturer, the majority of semi-automatic handguns in Europe were designed by John M. Browning.
  3. Robert Browning, poet.
 
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