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- 1 Young shoots and twigs. uncountable
"And with their horned feet the greene gras wore, / The whiles their Gotes upon the brouzes fedd […]"
- 2 the act of feeding by continual nibbling wordnet
- 3 Fodder for cattle and other animals. uncountable
"The Grand Canyon seems to us Mormons to mark the line. There's enough browse here to feed a hundred thousand cattle. But water's the thing."
- 4 reading superficially or at random wordnet
- 5 The act of browsing through something. countable
"I had a browse in the old bookshop."
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- 6 vegetation (such as young shoots, twigs, and leaves) that is suitable for animals to eat wordnet
- 7 That which one browses through; something to read. countable
"Here he buried himself in a close-printed, thickish volume which had been his chosen browse for some time."
- 8 Bruised fish used as bait. Cornwall, uncountable
"He cast in his hook-and-line, intending to take one fish only for his supper, from the multitude that always came around the rock on which he stood as soon as he cast in "browse" (garbage to attract fish)."
- 1 To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand.
"I'm just browsing around."
- 2 eat lightly, try different dishes wordnet
- 3 To move about while sampling, such as with food or products on display.
- 4 look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular wordnet
- 5 To navigate through hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser. transitive
"HyperText is a way to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will."
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- 6 feed as in a meadow or pasture wordnet
- 7 To move about while eating parts of plants, especially plants other than pasture, such as shrubs or trees. intransitive
"Sheep ranged everywhere under the low cedars. They browsed with noses in the frost, and from all around came the tinkle of tiny bells on the curly-horned rams, and an endless variety of bleats."
- 8 shop around; not necessarily buying wordnet
- 9 To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze. archaic
"The fields between / Are dewy-fresh, brows'd by deep-udder'd kine, […]"
Etymology
From Middle English browsen, from Old French brouster, broster (“to nibble off buds, sprouts, and bark; browse”), from brost (“a sprout, shoot, bud”), from a Germanic source, perhaps Frankish *brust (“shoot, bud”), from Proto-Germanic *brustiz (“bud, shoot”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to swell, sprout”). Cognate with Bavarian Bross, Brosst (“a bud”), Old Saxon brustian (“to sprout”). Doublet of brut, breast, and brush.
From Middle English browsen, from Old French brouster, broster (“to nibble off buds, sprouts, and bark; browse”), from brost (“a sprout, shoot, bud”), from a Germanic source, perhaps Frankish *brust (“shoot, bud”), from Proto-Germanic *brustiz (“bud, shoot”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to swell, sprout”). Cognate with Bavarian Bross, Brosst (“a bud”), Old Saxon brustian (“to sprout”). Doublet of brut, breast, and brush.
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