browse
English
Etymology
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 Bavarian Bross, Brosst (“a bud”), Old Saxon brustian (“to sprout”). Doublet of brut, breast, and brush.
Pronunciation
Verb
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- To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand.
- To move about while sampling, such as with food or products on display.
- (transitive, computing) To navigate through hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser.
- (intransitive, of an animal) To move about while eating parts of plants, especially plants other than pasture, such as shrubs or trees.
- (archaic, transitive) To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze.
- Tennyson
- Fields […] browsed by deep-uddered kine.
- Tennyson
Derived terms
Translations
scan, casually look through
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move about while sampling
move about while eating parts of plants
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Noun
browse (plural browses)
- 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.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.10:
- 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.
- Texas Parks and Wildlife Service, 2007
Further reading
- “browse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “browse”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Danish
Verb
browse (imperative brows, present browser, past browsede, past participle browset)
Dutch
Pronunciation
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Verb
browse
- (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of browsen
- (deprecated template usage) (archaic) singular present subjunctive of browsen
- (deprecated template usage) imperative of browsen
German
Verb
browse
- (deprecated template usage) First-person singular present of browsen.
- (deprecated template usage) First-person singular subjunctive I of browsen.
- (deprecated template usage) Third-person singular subjunctive I of browsen.
- (deprecated template usage) Imperative singular of browsen.
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