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  [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.
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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

Related forms:
browser, noun

Synonyms:
3. scan, skim, examine, peruse, check.
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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.

  2. To look for information on the Internet.

  3. 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.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
graze

and browse
  1. in.
    to eat a bit of everything at parties. : We will just graze on party snacks rather than eat a full meal. , I think I'll just browse here and skip going out to dinner.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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