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



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