Related Searches
on Ask.com
Synonyms
browse - 6 dictionary results
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
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.
3. scan, skim, examine, peruse, check.
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
Cite This Source
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
Cite This Source
|
Link To browse
| browse (brouz) v. browsed, brows·ing, brows·es v. intr.
[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.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Cite This Source
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
Cite This Source
Cite This Source
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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
Cite This Source
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2009, Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
