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Webster 1913 Edition

Browse

Browse

(brouz)
,
Noun.
[OF.
brost
,
broust
, sprout, shoot, F.
brout
browse, browsewood, prob. fr. OHG.
burst
, G.
borste
, bristle; cf. also Armor.
brousta
to browse. See
Bristle
,
Noun.
,
Brush
,
Noun.
]
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

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Browsed
(brouzd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Browsing
.]
[For
broust
, OF.
brouster
,
bruster
, F.
brouter
. See
Browse
,
Noun.
, 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
.
Shakespeare
2.
To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze.
Fields . . .
browsed
by deep-uddered kine.
Tennyson.

Browse

(brouz)
,
Verb.
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.
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition

Browse

BROWSE

,
Verb.
T.
s as z. [Gr. to eat or browse; food, but probably these words may be from sprouts.]
To eat the ends of branches of trees and shrubs or the young shoots, as cattle, or deer.

BROWSE

,
Verb.
I.
s as z. To feed on the tender branches or shoots of shrubs and trees, as cattle,sheep and goats.

BROWSE

,
Noun.
brows. The tender branches or twigs of trees and shrubs, fit for the food of cattle and other animals.

Definition 2024

browse

browse

English

Verb

browse ‎(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.
  5. (transitive) To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze.
    • Tennyson
      Fields […] browsed by deep-uddered kine.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

browse ‎(plural browses)

  1. Young shoots and twigs.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.10:
      And with their horned feet the greene gras wore, / The whiles their Gotes upon the brouzes fedd […]
    • Dryden
      Sheep, goats, and oxen, and the nobler steed, / On browse, and corn, and flowery meadows feed.
  2. Fodder for cattle and other animals.
    • Texas Parks and Wildlife Service, 2007
      In the Panhandle Area, bison eat browse that includes mesquite and elm.
    • Colorado State Forest Service, 1997
      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.

Anagrams

Danish

Verb

browse ‎(imperative brows, present browser, past browsede, past participle browset)

  1. (computing) to browse

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

browse

  1. first-person singular present indicative of browsen
  2. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of browsen
  3. imperative of browsen

German

Verb

browse

  1. First-person singular present of browsen.
  2. First-person singular subjunctive I of browsen.
  3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of browsen.
  4. Imperative singular of browsen.

Etymology

From Middle English browsen, from Old French brouster, broster ‎(“to nibble off buds, sprouts, and bark; browse”), from brost ‎(“a sprout, shoot, bud”), from a Germanic source, perhaps Frankish *brust ‎(“shoot, bud”), from Proto-Germanic *brustiz ‎(“bud, shoot”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- ‎(“to swell, sprout”). Cognate with dialectal English brut ‎(“to browse”), Bavarian Bross, Brosst ‎(“a bud”), Old Saxon brustian ‎(“to sprout”). Related to breast, brush.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɹaʊz/
  • Homophone: brows
  • Rhymes: -aʊz

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