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Browse   /braʊz/   Listen
Browse

verb
(past & past part. browsed; pres. part. browsing)
1.
Shop around; not necessarily buying.  Synonym: shop.
2.
Feed as in a meadow or pasture.  Synonyms: crop, graze, pasture, range.
3.
Look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular.  Synonym: surf.  "Surf the internet or the world wide web"
4.
Eat lightly, try different dishes.  Synonym: graze.
noun
1.
Vegetation (such as young shoots, twigs, and leaves) that is suitable for animals to eat.
2.
Reading superficially or at random.  Synonym: browsing.
3.
The act of feeding by continual nibbling.  Synonym: browsing.



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"Browse" Quotes from Famous Books



... languid interest to the writings of modern poets like Watson and Davidson. The verses of these gifted singers are for others, not for me. The truth is, I don't want any more lyrics and such like sugar pellets. My brain is already stocked with a plenteous supply on which I browse in weal and woe, which I almost think I personally composed, and to which I have attached a great many emotions and extraneous incidents known to nobody but myself. My old poetic favourites have been lying in various corners ...
— Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland • Daniel Turner Holmes
... fruit and appearance of trees both indicate, that pasturing an orchard with horses or cattle is about the worst possible practice. These animals rub against the trees, break the branches, browse the limbs and leaves, and destroy the fruit as high as they can reach. All experience is against this practice which cannot be too ...
— Apple Growing • M. C. Burritt
... but endows These acres with the stumps and stocks Which should be trees, with rude, gray rocks; Over these humps and hollows browse, Daily, ...
— Cap and Gown - A Treasury of College Verse • Selected by Frederic Knowles
... broad counter annoyed him by no offer of aid, but left him to browse for himself. First, the printed register. This was crowded with professors—full, head, associate, assistant; there were even two or three professors emeritus. And each department had its tale of instructors. But no mention of a Bertram Cope. Of course not; ...
— Bertram Cope's Year • Henry Blake Fuller
... Delos the stony, so empty that everything there now seems dead; and I am striving to reach the Delphian oracle before its inspiring vapour should be completely lost. The mules browse on its laurel. The pythoness, gone astray, is found there ...
— The Temptation of St. Antony - or A Revelation of the Soul • Gustave Flaubert


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