A surname transferred from the nickname, a spelling variant of Brown.

simple past tense and past participle of brown

plural of Browne

(slang, usually in Africa) Powdered cocaine or heroin mixed with smokeless gunpowder.

(intransitive) To become brown. / (cooking, transitive) To cook something until it becomes brown. / (intransitive, transitive) To tan. / (transitive) To make brown or dusky.

Having a brown colour. / (obsolete) Gloomy. / (US) Latino / (of Asians) South Asian / (of East Asians) Southeast Asian

(countable and uncountable) A colour like that of chocolate or coffee. / (snooker, countable) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points. / (uncountable) Black tar heroin.

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.

present participle of brown

The state or quality of being brown.