verb, browsed, brows⋅ing, noun | 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. |
| 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. |
| 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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browser hypertext
A program which allows a person to read hypertext. The browser gives some means of viewing the contents of nodes (or "pages") and of navigating from one node to another.
Netscape Navigator, NCSA Mosaic, Lynx, and W3 are examples for browsers for the World-Wide Web. They act as clients to remote web servers.
(1996-05-31)