noun

• The act or operation of giving a brown colour, as to gun barrels, cooked food, etc.
• Any of various preparations used to impart a brown colour to gravy, leather, etc.
• (masonry) A smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster.
• (Jamaica, countable) A brown-skinned person.
• A surname from Old English.
• Robert Browning, a poet.
• A number of places in the United States:
• An unincorporated community in Wilcox County, Georgia.
• A village in Schuyler County, Illinois.
• A minor city in Linn County and Sullivan County, Missouri.
• A town in Glacier County, Montana.
• An unincorporated community in Smith County, Texas.
• A town in Taylor County, Wisconsin.
• A rural municipality, Rural Municipality of Browning No. 34, in Saskatchewan, Canada.
• A community within the municipality in south-east Saskatchewan, named after Robert Browning.
• A small, semi-automatic European handgun.