Definition of "browse"

browse

/bɹaʊz/

verb
third-person singular simple present browses, present participle browsing, simple past and past participle browsed
1. To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand.
2. To move about while sampling, such as with food or products on display.
3. (transitive, computing) To navigate through hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser.
4. (intransitive, of an animal) To move about while eating parts of plants, especially plants other than pasture, such as shrubs or trees.
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  Also, when planting to provide a source of browse for wintering deer and elk, protect seedlings from browsing during the first several years; an electric fence enclosure can offer effective protection.
  1997, Colorado State Forest Service‎
5. (archaic, transitive) To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze.
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  The fields between / Are dewy-fresh, brows'd by deep-udder'd kine, […]
  1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], page 21
noun
countable and uncountable, plural browses
1. (uncountable) Young shoots and twigs.
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  And with their horned feet the greene gras wore, / The whiles their Gotes upon the brouzes fedd […]
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
  Sheep, goats, and oxen, and the nobler steed, / On browz, and corn, and flowery meadows feed.
  1717, John Dryden [et al.], “(please specify |book=I to XV)”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
2. (uncountable) Fodder for cattle and other animals.
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  Also, when planting to provide a source of browse for wintering deer and elk, protect seedlings from browsing during the first several years; an electric fence enclosure can offer effective protection.
  1997, Colorado State Forest Service‎
  In the Panhandle Area, bison eat browse that includes mesquite and elm.
  2007, Texas Parks and Wildlife Service‎
3. (countable) That which one browses through; something to read.
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  Here he buried himself in a close-printed, thickish volume which had been his chosen browse for some time.
  1899, Rudyard Kipling, Stalky & Co.

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