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