BROWSING
browse, browsing
(noun) the act of feeding by continual nibbling
browse, browsing
(noun) reading superficially or at random
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
browsing
present participle of browse
Noun
browsing (plural browsings)
A place abounding with shrubs where animals may browse.
Browsings for the deer.
Source: Wiktionary
Brows"ing, n.
Definition: Browse; also, a place abounding with shrubs where animals may
browse.
Browsings for the deer. Howell.
BROWSE
Browse, n. Etym: [OF. brost, broust, sprout, shoot, F. brout browse,
browsewood, prob. fr. OHG. burst, G. borste, bristle; cf. also Armor.
brousta to browse. See Bristle, n., Brush, n.]
Definition: 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, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Browsed; p. pr. & vb. n. Browsing.] Etym:
[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.
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. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition