Browse Definition

brouz
browsed, browses, browsing
verb
browsed, browses, browsing
To look through a book or books casually, reading passages here and there.
Webster's New World
To examine casually; skim.
Webster's New World
To nibble at leaves, twigs, etc.
Webster's New World
To nibble at (leaves, twigs, etc.)
Webster's New World
To look casually over articles for sale.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
noun
browses
Leaves, twigs, and young shoots of trees or shrubs, which animals feed on.
Webster's New World
The act of browsing.
Webster's New World

Fodder for cattle and other animals.

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Origin of Browse

  • Probably from obsolete French broust young shoot from Old French brost of Germanic origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle French brouster, from Old French broster.

    From Wiktionary

Browse Sentence Examples

  • In fact, he had repeatedly encouraged her to browse his financial records.

  • It was only a pet calf that had come there to browse among the bushes.

  • The young seedlings are sometimes nibbled by the hare and rabbit; and on parts of the highland hills both bark and shoots are eaten in the winter by the roe-deer; larch woods should always be fenced in to keep out the hill-cattle, which will browse upon the shoots in spring.

  • The "browse," after removal of the "grey" slag, is reintroduced, ore added, and, after a quarter of an hour's heating, the mass again placed on the work-stone, &c.

  • In the loftiest regions the pasture chiefly consists of a coarse grass (Stipa ychu), of which the llamas eat the upper blades and the sheep browse on the tender shoots beneath.

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Words Starting With

BBRBRO

Words Ending With

ESEWSE

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Words Starting With B and Ending With E

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With B6 Letter Words Ending With E