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▪ I. browsing, vbl. n.|ˈbraʊzɪŋ|
[f. browse v.]
1. a. The action of feeding upon young shoots and leaves of trees and shrubs; also concr. shoots and leaves; browsing-ground.
1580Baret Alv. B 1401 A gathering together of leaues for beasts in winter; a browsing. c1645Howell Lett. (1650) II. 8 The park..for groves, and browsings for the deer..may compare with any. 1859Jephson Brittany ix. 144 Heather and gorse, kept short by the browsing of the goats.
b. fig.
1899S. A. Barnett Let. in H. O. Barnett Canon S.A.B. (1918) II. 127 Many men owe as much to browsing as to the running... They laid hold of books to their tastes. 1902W. Raleigh Let. Aug. (1926) I. 241, I will not say that I have read it..all through, but I found browsings to interest me. 1907E. Godfrey Eng. Children xix. 309 Those early browsings in the fields of romance by no means unfitted him to become an explorer in the paths of science. 1966Listener 20 Jan. 108/2 The book makes incomparable browsing.
2. Comb., as browsing-line.
1805H. Repton Landsc. Gard. 51 Stripped of their foliage to a certain height..which I shall call the browsing line. 1828H. Steuart Planter's G. 309 The browsing-line of the black-faced sheep seldom reaches to more than three, or three feet and a half above the surface.
▪ II. ˈbrowsing, ppl. a.
That browses.
1702Pope Dryope 91 Nor let my branches feel The browzing cattle or the piercing steel. a1725Pope Odyss. xvii. 620 The grazing ox, and browzing goat. 1863A. Ramsay Phys. Geog. xxviii. 459 Carnivorous and browsing mammalia. |