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browing

browing is the present participle and gerund of brow.

Meaning of brow

Verb

brow (third-person singular simple present brows, present participle browing, simple past and past participle browed)

  1. To bound or limit; to be at, or form, the edge of.
    • Tending my flocks hard by i' the hilly crofts / That brow this bottom glade.1634 October 9 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey...

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Questions about browing

What is browing the present participle and gerund of?
Browing is the present participle and gerund of brow.

Words near browing in the dictionary

  1. browed
  2. Brower
  3. Browers
  4. browful
  5. browfuls
  6. browing
  7. browis
  8. browjans
  9. browless
  10. browlift
  11. browlifts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: browing (page history and authors); brow (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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