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3 definitions found 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]: Browsing \Brows"ing\, n. Browse; also a place abounding with shrubs where animals may browse. Browsings for the deer. --Howell. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: browsing n 1: reading superficially or at random [syn: {browse}] 2: the act of feeding by continual nibbling [syn: {browse}]
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