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Browsing   /brˈaʊzɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Browse  v. t.  (past & past part. browsed; pres. part. browsing)  
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."
2.
To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze. "Fields... browsed by deep-uddered kine."
3.
To look casually through (a book, books, or a set of documents), reading those parts which arouse one's interest. Contrasted with scan, in which one typically is searching for something specific.
4.
(Computers) To look at a series of electronic documents on a computer screen by means of a browser 2.


Browse  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; to graze.
3.
To look casually through a book, books, or a set of documents, reading those parts which arouse one's interest.
4.
To search through a group of items to find something, not previously specified, which may be of interest.


noun
Browsing  n.  Browse; also, a place abounding with shrubs where animals may browse. "Browsings for the deer."





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"Browsing" Quotes from Famous Books



... sky for a roof, but sheltering himself in winter in a cave. His food was wild fruits and mountain herbs. He never used a fire, and, clothed in a goats' hair garment, was perhaps the first of those Boscoi, or "browsing hermits," who lived literally like the wild animals in the flesh, while they tried to live ...
— The Hermits • Charles Kingsley
... the thorns as he nipped his nag's sides with his knees, turned its head, and went off at a canter for the place where the giraffes, seven or eight in number, were browsing upon the lower branches of the trees, their long necks seeming to writhe in and out amongst the branches in a way that quite justified Dick's idea of their being serpents, for their bodies were invisible ...
— Off to the Wilds - Being the Adventures of Two Brothers • George Manville Fenn
... twenty inches long, and ass-like; and had such a redundancy of upper lip as I never saw before, with huge nostrils. This lip, travellers say, is esteemed a dainty dish in North America. It is very reasonable to suppose that this creature supports itself chiefly by browsing of trees, and by wading after water-plants; towards which way of livelihood the length of leg and great lip must contribute much. I have read somewhere that it delights in eating the nymphaea, or ...
— The Natural History of Selborne • Gilbert White
... teasel is not often attacked by browsing cattle. Occasionally even the upper leaf surfaces are dotted over with prickles enough to tear a tender tongue. This is a curious feature, for prickles usually grow out of veins. In the receptacle formed where the bases of the upper leaves grow together, rain and ...
— Wild Flowers, An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and - Their Insect Visitors - - Title: Nature's Garden • Neltje Blanchan
... dirty, dishonest, lazy and occasionally drunk. But for their actual function they were quite useless. They drank my whiskey, they devoured and distributed my provisions, they stole my portable property, and once, when I had incautiously left the door unfastened, I caught them browsing round the museum; but they brought no grist to ...
— The Uttermost Farthing - A Savant's Vendetta • R. Austin Freeman


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