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browse

[brouz] verb, browsed, brows⋅ing, noun
–verb (used with object)
1. to eat, nibble at, or feed on (leaves, tender shoots, or other soft vegetation).
2. to graze; pasture on.
3. to look through or glance at casually: He's browsing the shelves for something to read.
–verb (used without object)
4. to feed on or nibble at foliage, lichen, berries, etc.
5. to graze.
6. to glance at random through a book, magazine, etc.
7. to look leisurely at goods displayed for sale, as in a store.
–noun
8. tender shoots or twigs of shrubs and trees as food for cattle, deer, etc.
9. an act or instance of browsing.

Origin:
1400–50; late ME browsen, perh. a v. deriv. of AF broz, pl. of brot shoot, new growth, OF brost < Old Low Franconian *brust bud, n. deriv. of *brustjan; cf. OS brustian to come into bud


browser, noun


3. scan, skim, examine, peruse, check.
browse   (brouz)   
v.   browsed, brows·ing, brows·es

v.   intr.
    1. To inspect something leisurely and casually: browsed through the map collection for items of interest.
    2. To read something superficially by selecting passages at random: browsed through the report during lunch.
  1. To look for information on the Internet.
  2. To feed on leaves, young shoots, and other vegetation; graze.
v.   tr.
  1. To look through or over (something) casually: browsed the newspaper; browsing the gift shops for souvenirs.
  2. To read (websites) casually on the Internet.
    1. To nibble; crop.
    2. To graze on.
n.  
  1. Young twigs, leaves, and shoots that are fit for animals to eat.
  2. An act of browsing.

[Probably from obsolete French broust, young shoot, from Old French brost, of Germanic origin.]
brows'a·ble (-zə-bəl) adj.

Browse

Browse\ (brouz), n. [OF. brost, broust, sprout, shoot, F. brout browse, browsewood, prob. fr. OHG. burst, G. borste, bristle; cf. also Armor. brousta to browse. See Bristle, n., Brush, n.] The tender branches or twigs of trees and shrubs, fit for the food of cattle and other animals; green food. --Spenser.

Sheep, goats, and oxen, and the nobler steed, On browse, and corn, and flowery meadows feed. --Dryden.

Browse

Browse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Browsed (brouzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Browsing.] [For broust, OF. brouster, bruster, F. brouter. See Browse, n., and cf. Brut.]

1. 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. --Shak.

2. To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze.

Fields . . . browsed by deep-uddered kine. --Tennyson.

Browse

Browse\ (brouz), v. i. 1. To feed on the tender branches or shoots of shrubs or trees, as do cattle, sheep, and deer.

2. To pasture; to feed; to nibble. --Shak.
Language Translation for : browse
Spanish: pacer,
German: stöbern,
Japanese: 拾い読む

browse 
1523, "feed on buds," from M.Fr. brouster, from O.Fr. broster "to sprout, bud," from brost "young shoot, twig," probably from P.Gmc. *brustjan "to bud." Lost its final -t in Eng. on the mistaken notion that it was a pp. inflection. Figurative extension to "peruse" (books) is 1870s, Amer.Eng.
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