Anagrams of: BRINGDOWNS

• cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill

• United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926)

• English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning noted for his dramatic monologues (1812-1889)

• English poet best remembered for love sonnets written to her husband Robert Browning (1806-1861)

• reading superficially or at random

• the act of feeding by continual nibbling

• medium-sized Eurasian thrush seen chiefly in winter

• white Arctic bunting

• small North American finch seen chiefly in winter

• half asleep

• cover completely or make imperceptible

• get rid of as if by submerging

• die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating

• kill by submerging in water

• be covered with or submerged in a liquid

• be in danger of dying from submersion in a liquid and asphyxiation

• bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting

• managing the bow in playing a stringed instrument

• showing an excessively deferential manner

• haul with a tackle

• the manner in which something is expressed in words