Browning

·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Brown.

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

III. Browning ·noun A smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster.

Browning, Robert
(1812-1889) Poet, only s. of Robert B., a man of fine intellect and equally fine character, who hel...

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
Browning, Oscar
(b. 1837) Historian, etc. Modern England (1879), Modern France (1880), England and Napoleon in 1803...

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
(1806-1861) Poetess, was the dau. of Edward Barrett Moulton Barrett, who assumed the last name on s...

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin