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browser|ˈbraʊzə(r)|
[f. browse v. + -er1.]
†1. ? One who feeds the deer (in winter-time). Cf. browse v. 3. Obs.
1550in Harcourt Papers (1876) [At a survey taken 10th April 4th year of Edward VI] the jury did then present that..the Lords of Stanton Harcourt have used and ought to find four Browsers in Woodstock Park in winter time, when any snow shall happen to fall, and tarry, lye, and abide be the space of two days, and so to feed the said Browsers there browsing soe long as the snow doth lye, every browser to have to his lodging every night one billet of wood the length of his ax-helve.
2. a. An animal which browses.
1845Miall in Nonconf. V. 312 The stupidest of the browsers of the field. 1870Yeats Nat. Hist. Comm. 122 We fell a forest, and the timid browsers lose their shelter and food.
b. fig.; spec. a person who browses among books.
1863Geo. Eliot Romola I. vii. 126 Friends who were ready to praise his writings:..amiable browsers in the Medicean park along with himself. 1937Atlantic Monthly Apr. 502/1 But the perfect browser must have one possession..a ladder; a library ladder. 1955N.Y. Times 5 May 32/3 Conrad Library, where often the casual browser has stayed to become a serious reader. 1965Listener 2 Dec. 926/2 Bookshop browsers.
▸ Computing. A program that searches for and locates a particular piece of data in a given data collection and then displays it, esp. one that also enables easy access to further items; spec. = web browser n. at web n. Additions.
[1969J. H. Williams BROWSER: Automatic Indexing On-line Retrieval Syst. 2 An alternative to the Boolean searching strategy has been developed, programmed and tested. This system, called BROWSER (BRowsing On-Line With SElective Retrieval), allows the searcher to express a query in his own words, in an unrestricted form.] 1984Sci. Amer. Sept. 57/2 Another spreadsheet example is a sophisticated interactive ‘browser’, a system originally designed by Lawrence G. Tesler, then at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. 1986Personal Computer World Nov. 58/1 (advt.) When you have created your first database applications, the database browser and report generator allows you to retrieve the information quickly and print it to screen, disk or printer. 1990T. Berners-Lee & R. Calliau WorldWideWeb: Proposal (Electronic text) A browser is a native application program running of the client machine... It performs the display of a hypertext node using the client hardware & software environment. 1991Byte (Nexis) Nov. 96 Enhancements to the Think Class Library include dialog boxes, multiple-windows documents... Version 5.0 also includes a class browser. 1994Guardian 3 Nov. (Online Suppl.) 215/1 A browser provides a graphical front end that enables users to mouse-click their way around the Web. 1998R. Darnell et al. HTML 4 Unleashed iii. xvi. 259 Java is currently supported by at least four browsers: HotJava from Sun.., Netscape Navigator 2.0 or later, Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 or later, and the W3C's beta version of the Jigsaw Web server. |