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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
browse
n 1: reading superficially or at random [syn: {browsing}]
2: the act of feeding by continual nibbling [syn: {browsing}]
v 1: shop around not necessarily buying [syn: {shop}]
2: feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing" [syn:
{crop}, {graze}, {range}, {pasture}]
3: look around casually and randomly, as through files and
directories on a computer
4: eat lightly, try different dishes [syn: {graze}]
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