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Browse v. t. (past & past part. browsed; pres. part. browsing)

To eat or nibble off, as the tender branches of trees, shrubs, etc.; said of cattle, sheep, deer, and some other animals. "Yes, like the stag, when snow the plasture sheets, The barks of trees thou browsedst."

To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze. "Fields... browsed by deep-uddered kine."

To look casually through (a book, books, or a set of documents), reading those parts which arouse one's interest. Contrasted with scan, in which one typically is searching for something specific.

(Computers) To look at a series of electronic documents on a computer screen by means of a browser 2.

Browse v. i.

To feed on the tender branches or shoots of shrubs or trees, as do cattle, sheep, and deer.

To pasture; to feed; to nibble; to graze.

To look casually through a book, books, or a set of documents, reading those parts which arouse one's interest.

To search through a group of items to find something, not previously specified, which may be of interest.

noun

Browse n. The tender branches or twigs of trees and shrubs, fit for the food of cattle and other animals; green food. "Sheep, goats, and oxen, and the nobler steed, On browse, and corn, and flowery meadows feed."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Browse" Quotes from Famous Books

... languid interest to the writings of modern poets like Watson and Davidson. The verses of these gifted singers are for others, not for me. The truth is, I don't want any more lyrics and such like sugar pellets. My brain is already stocked with a plenteous supply on which I browse in weal and woe, which I almost think I personally composed, and to which I have attached a great many emotions and extraneous incidents known to nobody but myself. My old poetic favourites have been lying in various corners ...

— Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland • Daniel Turner Holmes

... fruit and appearance of trees both indicate, that pasturing an orchard with horses or cattle is about the worst possible practice. These animals rub against the trees, break the branches, browse the limbs and leaves, and destroy the fruit as high as they can reach. All experience is against this practice which cannot be too ...

— Apple Growing • M. C. Burritt

... but endows These acres with the stumps and stocks Which should be trees, with rude, gray rocks; Over these humps and hollows browse, Daily, ...

— Cap and Gown - A Treasury of College Verse • Selected by Frederic Knowles

... broad counter annoyed him by no offer of aid, but left him to browse for himself. First, the printed register. This was crowded with professors—full, head, associate, assistant; there were even two or three professors emeritus. And each department had its tale of instructors. But no mention of a Bertram Cope. Of course not; ...

— Bertram Cope's Year • Henry Blake Fuller

... Delos the stony, so empty that everything there now seems dead; and I am striving to reach the Delphian oracle before its inspiring vapour should be completely lost. The mules browse on its laurel. The pythoness, gone astray, is found there ...

— The Temptation of St. Antony - or A Revelation of the Soul • Gustave Flaubert

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