browning
Speech parts
1. browning - Noun
2. browning - Verb
4. Browning - Proper noun
Meaning
of Brown
The act or operation of giving a brown color, as to gun barrels, etc.
A smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster.
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Or from Browning some 'Pomegranate,' which if cut deep down the middle Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity.
When I was little in Spokane, Washington I drew all the time... and my father would bring paper home... and I mostly drew browning automatic water-cooled sub-machine guns... that was my favorite.
I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds.
...modern poetry is necessarily obscure; if the reader can't get it, let him eat Browning...
Meredith is a prose Browning, and so is Browning. He used poetry as a medium for writing in prose.
There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.