browsen.¹

Brit.

/braʊz/, U.S.

/braʊz/

Forms: 1500s bruse, 1500s–1700s brouze, 1500s– brouse, 1500s– browse, 1600s brouce, 1600s brouss, 1600s browes, 1600s–1800s browze, 1700s brows, 1700s browz, 1800s browst (English regional (Gloucestershire)).

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: French brus , brost ; browse v.

Etymology: Partly (in sense 1) < Anglo-Norman brouce, brouz, brus scrub, thicket, undergrowth (13th cent. or earlier), variant of Old French, Middle French brost, Middle French brout, broust (French brout , †broust ) young shoots and leaves of shrubs and trees (end of the 12th cent. in Old French as brost ), food (13th cent.), vegetation suitable for browsing by animals (16th cent.; < the Germanic base of Old Saxon brustian to bud: see etymological note at breast n.), and partly < browse v. Compare Old Occitan brost young shoots and leaves collectively (a1215).

a. The young shoots, leaves, and twigs of shrubs and trees; brushwood. Chiefly North American in later use.

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the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [noun] > bough or branch > twig > twigs or spray

riceeOE

sproteOE

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?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xlii^v Yf thou haue any trees to..croppe for the fyre wode. Croppe them in wynter, that thy beestes may eate the bruse and the mosse of the bowes. And also the yues.

1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos vii. sig. S.iij This Laurel bushe full thick of browse.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. x. sig. Mm7 Their Gotes vpon the brouzes fedd.

1607 G. Markham Cavelarice i. 5 Bushes, brouse, and some hie or thick trees for shelter.

1658 J. Harrington tr. Virgil Ess. Eclogues sig. A5^v, in Ess. Two Eclogues, & Two Bks. Æneis Woodmen cut their browse, or hew their blocks.

1722 P. Dudley in Philos. Trans. 1720–21 (Royal Soc.) 31 168 In the Winter they live upon Browse, or the tops of Bushes and young Trees.

1744 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Feb. 88 Sow Black-oats on new stocked-up Ground; that is,..where the Brows of Wood, next to Hedges, have been mattocked up last Winter.

1863 Ann. Rep. Amer. Inst. N.Y. 1862, '63 374 in Docs. Assembly State of N.Y. (86th Session, Doc. No. 233) Across the swamps of muck, etc., a little browse, then clay or lime, and finally a round, gravelly surface may be easiest maintained.

1897 Outing July 378/1 A browse bed, small browse, a foot thick, upon a smooth surface, should bring you a restful, dreamless sleep.

1914 D. C. Beard Shelters, Shacks, & Shanties (1920) iv. 15 Over these poles other poles are laid horizontally and the roof thatched with browse.

1961 W. P. Keller Canada's Wild Glory iii. 109 This thick growth of young browse and fruit guarantees a resurgence of all wildlife thus provided with an abundance of food and shelter.

a2007 H. Fox Dartmoor's Alluring Uplands (2012) i. 38 The browse of low branches and saplings, freshly shooting in spring, was especially valuable for livestock which had been confined to stall-feeding..during the winter months.

b. Food for animals consisting of the young shoots, leaves, and twigs of shrubs and trees; vegetation suitable for browsing by animals. Chiefly North American in later use.

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the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > substance browsed on

browsing1448

browse1552

browse wood1598

browsage1610

cropping1768

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Browse, or meat for beastes in snow tyme, vesca.

1574 J. Baret Aluearie B 1297 Browse made for beasts of withie bowes.

1621 J. Fletcher et al. Trag. of Thierry & Theodoret i. i. sig. B3 Like leaues they would..become browse for euery beast.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 86 Th' unworthy Browze Of Buffal'os.

1708 J. Philips Cyder i. 8 How the Goats their shrubby Brouze Gnaw pendent.

1838 W. Howitt Rural Life Eng. II. ii. ii. 84 Hollies, which were encouraged in most ancient forests for winter browze.

1886 Cultivator & Country Gentleman 21 Oct. 797/1 As a source of browse to the Angora.., this bush is almost the only vegetation which redeems from absolute barrenness thousands of acres.

1968 Jrnl. Wildlife Managem. 32 769/1 Bitterbrush is a preferred browse of deer on winter ranges in southern Idaho.

2000 D. F. Tomback in G. Smith Sierra East 445 Mule Deer occur in small groups in the mountains and foothills, which provide good browse.

2. The feeding by animals on the young shoots, leaves, and twigs of shrubs and trees; an instance of this. Cf. browse v. 1b.

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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating by animals > [noun] > browsing

brutting1662

browsage1688

browse1794

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1794 J. B. Bird Laws respecting Landlords,Tenants & Lodgers 100 Shall and will at all times during the said term preserve from the browse of cattle, and other avoidable injury all the young trees and underwood.

1810 A. Cunningham et al. Remains Nithsdale & Galloway Song 262 All the flocks at browse.

1820 W. Scott Abbot I. iii. 61 The cattle are even now returning from their scanty browse.

1850 T. T. Lynch Memorials Theophilus Trinal v. 80 Listened to the browse of the sheep as they cropped the grass.

1898 United Service Mag. Feb. 531 A very interesting folk are the Lapps, who come south in the summer into the province of Uleaborg to give their herds of reindeer a browse.

1919 J. G. Neihardt Song of Three Friends (1921) vi. 78 A maze Of bison moving lazily at browse.

2013 M. Enns Wild Horses, Wild Wolves v. 152/1 The two-hundred-plus cows and calves do a good job of reducing the fire hazard with their browse of the thick, drying grass.

a. An act of examining or looking through something in a casual or leisurely manner. Cf. browse v. 4a.Originally a figurative use of sense 2.

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1866 Ladies' Repository Nov. 664/1 Suppose education to be conducted in this fashion—a nibble of Greek, a browse of Latin, German, as the inclination may be, [etc.].

1899 Public Libraries 4 220/2 A browse through the English department offers pastures green to book lovers.

1951 Madison (Wisconsin) State Jrnl. 13 Jan. 3/7 A leisurely browse through the catalog on one of these cold nights will reward the browser with mouth-watering color photos.

1990 CU Amiga Apr. 66/3 And now for our final browse through the bookshelves.

2012 Guardian 14 July (Travel section) 4/3 When it's done correctly, bodysurfing..is truly graceful, as a quick browse on YouTube will testify.

b. A book, magazine, website, etc., regarded as suitable for reading or looking through in a casual or leisurely manner.Usually with modifying word indicating the quality of information or entertainment offered.

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1952 Artist Feb. p. iii (advt.) Here is a fascinating ‘browse’ for every artist and student.

1975 Guardian 14 May 22/6 The book is..as informative a browse as a motor racing enthusiast could wish for.

1994 R. Porter London 390/1 There are scores of antiquarian and antiquated histories of London, which still make entertaining browses.

2006 Boston Globe (Electronic ed.) 9 July e2 ‘The Real McCoy’..is less comprehensive—a beach browse, not a bookshelf reference work.

2013 North Shore News (Brit. Columbia) (Nexis) 24 July a33 This book is an interesting browse with lots of information about salt.

Derivatives

browse line n. the level below which the foliage of trees and shrubs can be or has been reached and eaten by browsing animals.

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1887 F. T. Havergal Herefordshire Words 8/2 Browse line, the height to which cattle can reach to bite. ‘Trim them apple trees, Jim, not too much, but just above the brouse line.’

1938 S. W. Allen Introd. Amer. Forestry ix. 143 Most of the ground hemlock..has been destroyed within the past ten years by a herd of moose... A ‘browse line’ about 11 ft. from the ground may be readily discerned along parts of the shore.

2009 P. Whitefield Living Landscape 115 The most obvious sign of a resident deer population is a browse line, which they make by eating the leaves and smaller twigs off trees and bushes up to the height they can reach with their mouths.

browse wood n. thin branches of trees suitable for feeding to animals in winter.

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the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > substance browsed on

browsing1448

browse1552

browse wood1598

browsage1610

cropping1768

1598 J. Manwood Treat. Lawes Forrest vi. §1. f. 33 The Foresters..must prouide Browsewood to bee cut downe for them [sc. the Deer] to feed upon.

1664 J. Evelyn Sylva 72 It is advis'd not to cut off the Browse-wood of Oaks in Copses.

1712 Game-law ii. 46 The Lord of a Forest may by his Officers enter into any Man's Wood..and cut down Browsewood for the Deer in Winter.

1835 E. Jesse Gleanings Nat. Hist. 3rd Ser. 239 Right of common for four horses, and the use of browse-wood.

2008 R. Deakin Wildwood iv. 387 Helen found some 7,000 ash and elm pollards, all between one and two hundred years old, still being harvested for their browse wood.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

browsen.²

Brit.

/braʊz/, U.S.

/braʊz/

Forms: 1800s brouze, 1800s– brouse, 1800s– browse.

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: bouse n.²

Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps an alteration of bouse n.² by association with browse n.¹With the possible association with browse n.¹, compare earlier use of that word in Derbyshire in the context of lead mining:1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. (at cited word) Brouse, a course sort of Stoping, such as Chaggs, and the smallest Boughs of Trees, put into the Pannes, at the back of the Stoprods, or Bangrets in Sinking, (more commonly) to hold the Geer from falling down.

English regional (northern). Metallurgy. Now historical and rare.

In lead smelting: partially smelted ore, or a mixture of this with heated fuel.

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials produced from metalworking > [noun] > slag or scoria

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scum1526

scory1607

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c1794 J. Mulcaster Acct. Method Smelting Lead Ore in Bull. Hist. Metall. Group (1971) 5 45/2 (modernized text) When it is seen that such mixed fuel is sufficiently in combustion, a quantity of brouse is also given upon the top, which brouse is a mixture of ore imperfectly reduced to lead and slag, coal cindered or half burned, and lime, being a stock formerly the contents of the same hearth.

1838 Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Northumberland, Durham, & Newcastle upon Tyne 2 159 At the end of that time, one man plunges a poker into the fluid lead, in the hearth bottom below the brouse, and raises the whole up.

1870 J. Percy Metall. Lead 281 Lead ore is termed bouse in the North of England, and the agglomerated masses of ore formed in the process of smelting are termed brouse or browse.

1901 Appletons' Ann. Cycl. 1900 360/1 There is, however, an intermediate product consisting of ore, slag, and fuel, termed ‘brouse’, which is washed and remelted with subsequent charges.

1996 S. Murphy Grey Gold (App. 2) 471 When the fire was going well and the furnace was sufficiently hot, a shovel or two of browse, the agglomerated residues from the last shift, were thrown onto the hearth.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

browsev.

Brit.

/braʊz/, U.S.

/braʊz/

Forms: late Middle English broouse, late Middle English–1500s bruse, late Middle English–1700s brouse, 1500s brose, 1500s brows, 1500s–1800s brouze, 1500s–1800s browze, 1500s– browse, 1600s broose, 1600s brouz; also Scottish 1700s brooze; U.S. regional (chiefly southern and south Midland) (in sense 3) 1800s brooze, 1800s bruze, 1800s– bruise, 1900s– brouge.

Origin: Probably a borrowing from French. Etymon: French brouter.

Etymology: Probably < Anglo-Norman and Middle French brouter, Middle French brouster (French brouter , †brouster ) to crop and eat (young shoots, leaves, twigs, etc.) from a shrub or tree, to feed on (a shrub or tree) in this way (second half of the 12th cent. in Old French as broster ), to crop and eat the young shoots, leaves, and twigs of shrubs and trees (second half of the 12th cent. in Old French as broster ), (in extended use) to eat (anything) (13th cent.), probably < Old French brost bud, young shoot: see browse n.¹ Compare Franco-Occitan brostar (c1180). Compare later browse n.¹, and (with sense 2) slightly earlier browser n. 1.The English forms lack the medial -t- which is common to all attested forms of the French verb in the relevant period (although compare the later variant Middle French, French †brouser to eat young shoots or leaves (1599), which shows a deverbal derivative < brout food: see browse n.¹). They probably ultimately reflect influence from the corresponding Anglo-Norman noun brouce , brouz , brus (see browse n.¹). The pronunciation with /z/, now common to both noun and verb, may have spread from the verb (originally in inflected forms) to the noun.

a. transitive. Esp. of cattle, deer, or goats: to crop and eat (young shoots, leaves, twigs, etc.) from a shrub or tree; to feed on (a shrub or tree) in this way; to crop and eat the vegetation of (a place). Also more loosely: to graze on. Also: to crop (vegetation) down or away in this manner.

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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating by animals > feed on or forage for (of animals) [verb (transitive)] > browse on

browse1440

1440 in A. H. Thompson Visitations Relig. Houses Diocese Lincoln (1919) II. 177 The wodes that are now fellede, if thai be brouusede wythe bestes, ye felle thaym agayn.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xlii Fell the vnder woode first in wynter that thy catell or beestes maye eate & bruse the toppes.

1591 E. Spenser Virgil's Gnat in Complaints sig. H2^v Others..brouze the woodbine twigges.

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xviii. 284 In Summer when the Fly doth prick the gadding Neate, Forc't from the Brakes, where late they brouz'd the veluet buds.

1677 J. Phillips tr. J.-B. Tavernier Persian Trav. v. xxiv. 256 in tr. J.-B. Tavernier Six Voy. (1678) When they [sc. Cattel] come home from browsing the barren bushes, they give them the heads and guts of their fish boyl'd.

1733 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 546/2 See snowy flocks that browse the tufted green.

1789 J. Wolcot Odes xiii. 4 Forc'd, forc'd to brouse, like goats, the lanes for food.

1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species iii. 72 Little trees, which had been perpetually browsed down by the cattle.

1864 Daily Tel. 21 May Herds of deer have browsed all the leaves away as high as their necks could reach.

1893 S. O. Jewett Native of Winby 249 The sorrel mare..had unwisely browsed the sharp-thorned sprouting rosebushes.

1916 Geogr. Rev. 1 9 The shepherd, whose sheep and goats browse the bushes and grass and furnish wool and milk.

1975 Field & Stream Aug. 10/3 You will see them [sc. deer] browsing the fields and woods early in the morning.

2001 T. Flannery Eternal Frontier (U.S. ed.) xxvi. 344 The bison, it seems, kept aspen in check by intensively browsing shoots and toppling mature trees.

b. intransitive. Esp. of cattle, deer, or goats: to crop and eat the young shoots, leaves, and twigs of shrubs and trees; to feed on or upon something in this way. Also in extended use.

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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating by animals > feed (of animals) [verb (intransitive)] > browse

browse1542

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1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xvi. sig. J.i^v At the .x. byt on the grasse, or brosynge on the tree.

1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Brouter & manger, to brouze, to feede like an Oxe or Goate.

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 32^v All the bushes and boughes..were hewd downe and feld for men (like brute beastes) to brouze on.

1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus (ii. 1) 336 Cattell forsaking the..pastures to broose vpon leaues and boughes.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iii. vi. 38 There is cold meat i' th' Caue, we'l brouz on that.

1682 M. Coppinger Poems 21 I am no Mole, nor can I feed on Earth, Nor yet Camelion, to browse on Air.

1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France I. 38 Goats..browze upon the steeps of Snowdon.

1801 J. Barrow Acct. Trav. Interior S. Afr. 1797–8 I. ii. 88 Abundance of succulent plants, among which the bullocks of Africa are accustomed to brouze for want of grass.

1844 W. B. Carpenter Animal Physiol. iv. 141 The Giraffe uses its long tongue to lay hold of the young shoots on which it browzes.

1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. 74 The horses browsed on lotus-leaves.

1937 J. R. R. Tolkien Hobbit vii. 141 Small herds of red deer browsing.

1987 Ecologist Mar. 67/1 Acute shortage of fodder compels most villagers with small grazing lands to turn their cattle to browse on the forest floor.

2002 T. Pinchuck et al. Rough Guide S. Afr. (ed. 3) 860 Giraffes spend their daylight hours browsing on the leaves of trees too high for other species.

c. transitive. To feed (cattle, deer, goats, etc.) on the young shoots, leaves, and twigs of shrubs and trees; to allow (animals) to feed in this way.

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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [verb (transitive)] > feed with specific food or meal

sup1575

winter-feed1606

soil1608

supper1666

browse1675

cake1799

slop1848

mash1859

pair-feed1944

zero-graze1954

1675 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (ed. 2) vi. §2. 80 Rangers and Keepers of Parks in hard Winters have the experience of it [sc. ash], by brousing their Deer on it.

1832 R. M. Caunter Attila 137 The king Who brought the Scythian from his native hills, To browse his herds upon your richer pastures.

1876 3rd Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1875–6 74 It was customary, in years past, when farmers were short of hay, to browse their cattle, as it was called.

1913 Farm Jrnl. Feb. 121/1 When the goats are browsed on brush land their flesh has a gamey flavor resembling venison.

1991 Evil Days (Afr. Watch Rep.) vii. 128 The loss of trees..forced pastoralists to browse their animals on other and possibly less suitable trees.

2. intransitive. Of a person: to cut the leaves and twigs of trees and shrubs; to trim hedges. Cf. browser n. 1, browsing n. 2. rare (English regional (south-western) in later use).

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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [verb (intransitive)] > prune or lop

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browse1550

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summer prune1731

1550 in E. W. Harcourt Papers (1876) I. 21 To find the said Browsers there browsing soe long as the snow doth lye, every Browser to have to his lodging every night one Billett of wood the length of his ax-helve.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Browse, to trim the hedges—i. e. to cut the brambles and other small undergrowth which so rapidly accumulates upon the sides of our West Somerset bank hedges.

3. intransitive. Chiefly U.S. regional. To stroll or wander aimlessly; to idle, loiter. Frequently with around.

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the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > be idle or unoccupied [verb (intransitive)] > potter or waste time in trifling activity

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to thrum caps1594

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taigle17..

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quiddle1789

muddle1791

browse1803

niddle1808

poke1811

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potter1824

footer1825

putter1827

shaffle1828

to fool about1838

mike1838

piffle1847

mess1853

to muck about1856

tinker1856

bohemianize1857

to fool around1860

frivol1866

june1869

muss1876

to muddle about (also around)1877

slummock1877

dicker1888

moodle1893

to fart about1899

to fart about (or around)1899

plouter1899

futz1907

monkey1916

to arse around1919

to play around1929

to fuck around1931

tool1932

frig1933

boondoggle1935

to muck around1935

to screw around1935

to bugger about1937

to bugger around1939

to piss about1943

to dick around1948

to jerk around1953

fart-arse1954

to fanny around1969

slop1973

dork1982

to twat around (or about)1992

to dick about1996

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (intransitive)] > with no fixed aim or wander

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woreOE

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roamc1330

errc1374

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ravec1390

rumblec1400

rollc1405

railc1425

roit1440

waverc1440

rangea1450

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bum1857

piroot1858

scamander1864

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bat1867

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float1901

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pissant1945

society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > go on foot [verb (intransitive)] > leisurely or idly

raik?c1350

troll1377

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snaffle1611

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browse1803

soodle1821

potter1824

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bummel1900

1803 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 17 Dec. 875 Then might we hear of the sea ports of France being reduced to ashes, and her troops instead of browsing about Calais,..would be compelled to march and countermarch to defend their own coast.

1855 C. E. De Long Jrnl. 1 Sept. in Calif. Hist. Soc. Q. (1929) 8 343 Bruised around town, reced several compliments &c.

1863 Standard 13 Jan. 5/5 The great military display at New Orleans, where our army—to use the President's own words—is ‘to browse around’ until the next yellow fever season.

1927 Amer. Speech 2 349/2 ‘What have you been doing to-day?’ ‘Oh! just brouging around.’

1952 F. C. Brown Coll. N. Carolina Folklore I. 523 Bruise (along).., to go around slowly with no particular aim; to stroll.

2008 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 27 Mar. (Neighbors section) 9/2 My job as a forest ranger wouldn't be just browsing around the woods.

a. intransitive. Originally: to examine or look through various books in a library, bookshop, etc., esp. in a casual or leisurely manner. Later also: to look at various items for sale in a shop, esp. in a casual or leisurely manner. Frequently with in, through.Originally a use of sense 1b in a figurative context.

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society > communication > reading > [verb (intransitive)] > skim or browse

browse1818

to look over ——1855

riffle1919

page1927

skim-read1931

skip-read1977

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eat [verb (intransitive)]

eatc825

to break breadeOE

baitc1386

feeda1387

to take one's repast?1490

to take repast1517

repast1520

peck?1536

diet1566

meat1573

victual1577

graze1579

manger1609

to craw it1708

grub1725

scoff1798

browse1818

provender1819

muckamuck1853

to put on the nosebag1874

refect1882

restaurate1882

nosh1892

tucker1903

to muck in1919

scarf1960

snack1972

society > education > learning > study > [verb (intransitive)] > superficially

scum1625

browse1818

1818 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 421/2 A Writer whom we consulted last year on this business observed, ‘the students have probably long ago obtained as binding a servitude of browsing upon this library as any man ever had of grazing his cattle upon a village common’.

1820 W. Hazlitt in London Mag. Sept. 262/1 He brouzes on the husk and leaves of books, as the young fawn browzes on the bark and leaves of trees.

1823 C. Lamb Mackery End in Elia 175 She was tumbled..into a spacious closet of good old English reading,..and browsed at will upon that fair and wholesome pasturage.

1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 9 We thus get a glimpse of him browsing—for..he was always a random reader—in his father's library.

1927 J. S. Huxley Relig. without Revelation iv. 127 Browsing in the public library at Colorado Springs,..I came across some essays of Lord Morley.

1965 Crescendo Sept. 1/1 While browsing through a local bookshop recently I came across your excellent publication.

1988 Mid-Atlantic Country Mar. 29/2 One of the best ways to become knowledgeable about styles and learn how to distinguish fine antiques from pedestrian pieces is to browse through such shops regardless of whether or not you can afford the merchandise.

2007 D. Weinberger Everything is Misc. i. 8 ‘I'm just browsing,’ you reply with a little smile. With that word, a customer declares a lack of commitment.

b. transitive. To examine or look at various items in (a shop, library, or other location), esp. in a casual or leisurely manner. Also: to examine or look at (items) in this manner.

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society > communication > reading > [verb (transitive)] > skim or browse or skip

skip1526

launch1570

to run over1577

rufflea1631

leaf1663

to run through1670

to dip into1682

skim1739

thumb-read1825

browse1903

thumb1930

riffle1938

riff1942

skim-read1954

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1903 N.Y. Times 5 Apr. 7/5 The little ‘den’ below Goupil & Co.'s..which is so well known to those who browse the bric-à-brac shops of Fifth Avenue.

1966 Oneonta (N.Y.) Star 12 Nov. 9/3 When you visit this friendly shop be sure to browse the mezzanine floor—the Sportswear is simply gorgeous.

1991 Notes 47 755/2 It is still impossible to allay a gnawing suspicion that finely topified bibliographies of this sort exist at the expense of the old fashioned pleasure of browsing the library stacks.

2008 BFI Southbank Programme Guide (Brit. Film Inst.) Nov. 2/2 Browse our comprehensive stock of DVDs and moving-image related books at our shop on the corner.

5. intransitive. With in, through. To peruse or glance through the contents of a book, newspaper, etc. Also transitive with the book, newspaper, etc., as object.

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1895 Atlantic Monthly Feb. 278/2 The book is one which a book-lover will linger over, browsing in it as he would browse in the library itself.

1925 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Sept. 571/4 The little ‘wallet-book’ can be browsed in pleasurably.

1968 Listener 22 Aug. 242/3 Hobson-Jobson is not of course a book to read right through but to browse in.

1977 P. C. Venter Soweto 231 If you browse through the dailies, the spoor of violence is there.

1987 M. Dorris Yellow Raft in Blue Water (1988) ii. 18 I thought she was checking out the Classifieds,..hoping to improve her prospects, but she had browsed too long in the Arts and Leisure.

2000 F. Littauer Personality Plus for Parents 7 The father quietly slid into his seat and began to browse the menu.

6. transitive. To view or look through (information on a computer, website, etc.); to view or look through the content of (a website, the internet, etc.) using a web browser. Also (and in earliest use) with through. Also intransitive.

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1962 P. C. Tiffany in Proc. Spring Joint Computer Conf. (Amer. Federation Information Processing Soc.) 291/1 A storage and retrieval system that permits the medical researcher to examine or browse through clinical records or abstracts is described.

1984 Amer. Archivist 47 459/1 Viewers using the disk may browse the collection by depressing a button which will cause the images to be displayed automatically at a rate of several per second.

1993 Sky Aug. 121/1 This new critter helps people browse many of the resources available on local campus networks or on the worldwide Internet.

1994 Amer. Scientist 82 420/1 Watching myself browse the Web brings up still another worry... I have spent many late nights wandering the Web from one node to the next, glassy-eyed, weary, waiting to be entertained.

1996 Internet World Nov. 59 (advt.) With UUNET Web hosting services, you get a site that's a breeze to browse through.

1997 G. Fincher in J. H. Ellsworth et al. Internet Unleashed (ed. 4) liv. 946 In the future..you'll be just as likely to be using your television or cellular phone to browse the Internet!

2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 8 Oct. d3/4 The reconfigured site allows readers to browse products by category.

2012 E. Laybourne Monument 14 (2013) iii. 39 You could watch TV on a bigtab and use it to browse and text and Skype.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹?1523

n.²c1794

v.1440

单词	browse
释义	browsen.¹ Brit. /braʊz/, U.S. /braʊz/ Forms: 1500s bruse, 1500s–1700s brouze, 1500s– brouse, 1500s– browse, 1600s brouce, 1600s brouss, 1600s browes, 1600s–1800s browze, 1700s brows, 1700s browz, 1800s browst (English regional (Gloucestershire)). Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: French brus , brost ; browse v. Etymology: Partly (in sense 1) < Anglo-Norman brouce, brouz, brus scrub, thicket, undergrowth (13th cent. or earlier), variant of Old French, Middle French brost, Middle French brout, broust (French brout , †broust ) young shoots and leaves of shrubs and trees (end of the 12th cent. in Old French as brost ), food (13th cent.), vegetation suitable for browsing by animals (16th cent.; < the Germanic base of Old Saxon brustian to bud: see etymological note at breast n.), and partly < browse v. Compare Old Occitan brost young shoots and leaves collectively (a1215). 1. a. The young shoots, leaves, and twigs of shrubs and trees; brushwood. Chiefly North American in later use. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [noun] > bough or branch > twig > twigs or spray riceeOE sproteOE spray1297 spraya1300 greavesc1385 browse?1523 fruz1693 witch knot1806 plica1829 rowel1869 twiggery1909 twiggage1923 ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xlii^v Yf thou haue any trees to..croppe for the fyre wode. Croppe them in wynter, that thy beestes may eate the bruse and the mosse of the bowes. And also the yues. 1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos vii. sig. S.iij This Laurel bushe full thick of browse. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. x. sig. Mm7 Their Gotes vpon the brouzes fedd. 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice i. 5 Bushes, brouse, and some hie or thick trees for shelter. 1658 J. Harrington tr. Virgil Ess. Eclogues sig. A5^v, in Ess. Two Eclogues, & Two Bks. Æneis Woodmen cut their browse, or hew their blocks. 1722 P. Dudley in Philos. Trans. 1720–21 (Royal Soc.) 31 168 In the Winter they live upon Browse, or the tops of Bushes and young Trees. 1744 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Feb. 88 Sow Black-oats on new stocked-up Ground; that is,..where the Brows of Wood, next to Hedges, have been mattocked up last Winter. 1863 Ann. Rep. Amer. Inst. N.Y. 1862, '63 374 in Docs. Assembly State of N.Y. (86th Session, Doc. No. 233) Across the swamps of muck, etc., a little browse, then clay or lime, and finally a round, gravelly surface may be easiest maintained. 1897 Outing July 378/1 A browse bed, small browse, a foot thick, upon a smooth surface, should bring you a restful, dreamless sleep. 1914 D. C. Beard Shelters, Shacks, & Shanties (1920) iv. 15 Over these poles other poles are laid horizontally and the roof thatched with browse. 1961 W. P. Keller Canada's Wild Glory iii. 109 This thick growth of young browse and fruit guarantees a resurgence of all wildlife thus provided with an abundance of food and shelter. a2007 H. Fox Dartmoor's Alluring Uplands (2012) i. 38 The browse of low branches and saplings, freshly shooting in spring, was especially valuable for livestock which had been confined to stall-feeding..during the winter months. b. Food for animals consisting of the young shoots, leaves, and twigs of shrubs and trees; vegetation suitable for browsing by animals. Chiefly North American in later use. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > substance browsed on browsing1448 browse1552 browse wood1598 browsage1610 cropping1768 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Browse, or meat for beastes in snow tyme, vesca. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie B 1297 Browse made for beasts of withie bowes. 1621 J. Fletcher et al. Trag. of Thierry & Theodoret i. i. sig. B3 Like leaues they would..become browse for euery beast. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 86 Th' unworthy Browze Of Buffal'os. 1708 J. Philips Cyder i. 8 How the Goats their shrubby Brouze Gnaw pendent. 1838 W. Howitt Rural Life Eng. II. ii. ii. 84 Hollies, which were encouraged in most ancient forests for winter browze. 1886 Cultivator & Country Gentleman 21 Oct. 797/1 As a source of browse to the Angora.., this bush is almost the only vegetation which redeems from absolute barrenness thousands of acres. 1968 Jrnl. Wildlife Managem. 32 769/1 Bitterbrush is a preferred browse of deer on winter ranges in southern Idaho. 2000 D. F. Tomback in G. Smith Sierra East 445 Mule Deer occur in small groups in the mountains and foothills, which provide good browse. 2. The feeding by animals on the young shoots, leaves, and twigs of shrubs and trees; an instance of this. Cf. browse v. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating by animals > [noun] > browsing brutting1662 browsage1688 browse1794 browsing1859 1794 J. B. Bird Laws respecting Landlords,Tenants & Lodgers 100 Shall and will at all times during the said term preserve from the browse of cattle, and other avoidable injury all the young trees and underwood. 1810 A. Cunningham et al. Remains Nithsdale & Galloway Song 262 All the flocks at browse. 1820 W. Scott Abbot I. iii. 61 The cattle are even now returning from their scanty browse. 1850 T. T. Lynch Memorials Theophilus Trinal v. 80 Listened to the browse of the sheep as they cropped the grass. 1898 United Service Mag. Feb. 531 A very interesting folk are the Lapps, who come south in the summer into the province of Uleaborg to give their herds of reindeer a browse. 1919 J. G. Neihardt Song of Three Friends (1921) vi. 78 A maze Of bison moving lazily at browse. 2013 M. Enns Wild Horses, Wild Wolves v. 152/1 The two-hundred-plus cows and calves do a good job of reducing the fire hazard with their browse of the thick, drying grass. 3. a. An act of examining or looking through something in a casual or leisurely manner. Cf. browse v. 4a.Originally a figurative use of sense 2. ΚΠ 1866 Ladies' Repository Nov. 664/1 Suppose education to be conducted in this fashion—a nibble of Greek, a browse of Latin, German, as the inclination may be, [etc.]. 1899 Public Libraries 4 220/2 A browse through the English department offers pastures green to book lovers. 1951 Madison (Wisconsin) State Jrnl. 13 Jan. 3/7 A leisurely browse through the catalog on one of these cold nights will reward the browser with mouth-watering color photos. 1990 CU Amiga Apr. 66/3 And now for our final browse through the bookshelves. 2012 Guardian 14 July (Travel section) 4/3 When it's done correctly, bodysurfing..is truly graceful, as a quick browse on YouTube will testify. b. A book, magazine, website, etc., regarded as suitable for reading or looking through in a casual or leisurely manner.Usually with modifying word indicating the quality of information or entertainment offered. ΚΠ 1952 Artist Feb. p. iii (advt.) Here is a fascinating ‘browse’ for every artist and student. 1975 Guardian 14 May 22/6 The book is..as informative a browse as a motor racing enthusiast could wish for. 1994 R. Porter London 390/1 There are scores of antiquarian and antiquated histories of London, which still make entertaining browses. 2006 Boston Globe (Electronic ed.) 9 July e2 ‘The Real McCoy’..is less comprehensive—a beach browse, not a bookshelf reference work. 2013 North Shore News (Brit. Columbia) (Nexis) 24 July a33 This book is an interesting browse with lots of information about salt. Derivatives browse line n. the level below which the foliage of trees and shrubs can be or has been reached and eaten by browsing animals. ΚΠ 1887 F. T. Havergal Herefordshire Words 8/2 Browse line, the height to which cattle can reach to bite. ‘Trim them apple trees, Jim, not too much, but just above the brouse line.’ 1938 S. W. Allen Introd. Amer. Forestry ix. 143 Most of the ground hemlock..has been destroyed within the past ten years by a herd of moose... A ‘browse line’ about 11 ft. from the ground may be readily discerned along parts of the shore. 2009 P. Whitefield Living Landscape 115 The most obvious sign of a resident deer population is a browse line, which they make by eating the leaves and smaller twigs off trees and bushes up to the height they can reach with their mouths. browse wood n. thin branches of trees suitable for feeding to animals in winter. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > substance browsed on browsing1448 browse1552 browse wood1598 browsage1610 cropping1768 1598 J. Manwood Treat. Lawes Forrest vi. §1. f. 33 The Foresters..must prouide Browsewood to bee cut downe for them [sc. the Deer] to feed upon. 1664 J. Evelyn Sylva 72 It is advis'd not to cut off the Browse-wood of Oaks in Copses. 1712 Game-law ii. 46 The Lord of a Forest may by his Officers enter into any Man's Wood..and cut down Browsewood for the Deer in Winter. 1835 E. Jesse Gleanings Nat. Hist. 3rd Ser. 239 Right of common for four horses, and the use of browse-wood. 2008 R. Deakin Wildwood iv. 387 Helen found some 7,000 ash and elm pollards, all between one and two hundred years old, still being harvested for their browse wood. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022). browsen.² Brit. /braʊz/, U.S. /braʊz/ Forms: 1800s brouze, 1800s– brouse, 1800s– browse. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: bouse n.² Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps an alteration of bouse n.² by association with browse n.¹With the possible association with browse n.¹, compare earlier use of that word in Derbyshire in the context of lead mining:1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. (at cited word) Brouse, a course sort of Stoping, such as Chaggs, and the smallest Boughs of Trees, put into the Pannes, at the back of the Stoprods, or Bangrets in Sinking, (more commonly) to hold the Geer from falling down. English regional (northern). Metallurgy. Now historical and rare. In lead smelting: partially smelted ore, or a mixture of this with heated fuel. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials produced from metalworking > [noun] > slag or scoria cindera800 drossc1050 scoriaa1398 scum1526 scory1607 recrement1611 slag1612 scorium1681 slackstone1683 finery cinder1786 browsec1794 smithy slack1813 matte1825 sullage1843 forge-cinder1881 basic slag1888 c1794 J. Mulcaster Acct. Method Smelting Lead Ore in Bull. Hist. Metall. Group (1971) 5 45/2 (modernized text) When it is seen that such mixed fuel is sufficiently in combustion, a quantity of brouse is also given upon the top, which brouse is a mixture of ore imperfectly reduced to lead and slag, coal cindered or half burned, and lime, being a stock formerly the contents of the same hearth. 1838 Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Northumberland, Durham, & Newcastle upon Tyne 2 159 At the end of that time, one man plunges a poker into the fluid lead, in the hearth bottom below the brouse, and raises the whole up. 1870 J. Percy Metall. Lead 281 Lead ore is termed bouse in the North of England, and the agglomerated masses of ore formed in the process of smelting are termed brouse or browse. 1901 Appletons' Ann. Cycl. 1900 360/1 There is, however, an intermediate product consisting of ore, slag, and fuel, termed ‘brouse’, which is washed and remelted with subsequent charges. 1996 S. Murphy Grey Gold (App. 2) 471 When the fire was going well and the furnace was sufficiently hot, a shovel or two of browse, the agglomerated residues from the last shift, were thrown onto the hearth. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). browsev. Brit. /braʊz/, U.S. /braʊz/ Forms: late Middle English broouse, late Middle English–1500s bruse, late Middle English–1700s brouse, 1500s brose, 1500s brows, 1500s–1800s brouze, 1500s–1800s browze, 1500s– browse, 1600s broose, 1600s brouz; also Scottish 1700s brooze; U.S. regional (chiefly southern and south Midland) (in sense 3) 1800s brooze, 1800s bruze, 1800s– bruise, 1900s– brouge. Origin: Probably a borrowing from French. Etymon: French brouter. Etymology: Probably < Anglo-Norman and Middle French brouter, Middle French brouster (French brouter , †brouster ) to crop and eat (young shoots, leaves, twigs, etc.) from a shrub or tree, to feed on (a shrub or tree) in this way (second half of the 12th cent. in Old French as broster ), to crop and eat the young shoots, leaves, and twigs of shrubs and trees (second half of the 12th cent. in Old French as broster ), (in extended use) to eat (anything) (13th cent.), probably < Old French brost bud, young shoot: see browse n.¹ Compare Franco-Occitan brostar (c1180). Compare later browse n.¹, and (with sense 2) slightly earlier browser n. 1.The English forms lack the medial -t- which is common to all attested forms of the French verb in the relevant period (although compare the later variant Middle French, French †brouser to eat young shoots or leaves (1599), which shows a deverbal derivative < brout food: see browse n.¹). They probably ultimately reflect influence from the corresponding Anglo-Norman noun brouce , brouz , brus (see browse n.¹). The pronunciation with /z/, now common to both noun and verb, may have spread from the verb (originally in inflected forms) to the noun. 1. a. transitive. Esp. of cattle, deer, or goats: to crop and eat (young shoots, leaves, twigs, etc.) from a shrub or tree; to feed on (a shrub or tree) in this way; to crop and eat the vegetation of (a place). Also more loosely: to graze on. Also: to crop (vegetation) down or away in this manner. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating by animals > feed on or forage for (of animals) [verb (transitive)] > browse on browse1440 1440 in A. H. Thompson Visitations Relig. Houses Diocese Lincoln (1919) II. 177 The wodes that are now fellede, if thai be brouusede wythe bestes, ye felle thaym agayn. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xlii Fell the vnder woode first in wynter that thy catell or beestes maye eate & bruse the toppes. 1591 E. Spenser Virgil's Gnat in Complaints sig. H2^v Others..brouze the woodbine twigges. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xviii. 284 In Summer when the Fly doth prick the gadding Neate, Forc't from the Brakes, where late they brouz'd the veluet buds. 1677 J. Phillips tr. J.-B. Tavernier Persian Trav. v. xxiv. 256 in tr. J.-B. Tavernier Six Voy. (1678) When they [sc. Cattel] come home from browsing the barren bushes, they give them the heads and guts of their fish boyl'd. 1733 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 546/2 See snowy flocks that browse the tufted green. 1789 J. Wolcot Odes xiii. 4 Forc'd, forc'd to brouse, like goats, the lanes for food. 1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species iii. 72 Little trees, which had been perpetually browsed down by the cattle. 1864 Daily Tel. 21 May Herds of deer have browsed all the leaves away as high as their necks could reach. 1893 S. O. Jewett Native of Winby 249 The sorrel mare..had unwisely browsed the sharp-thorned sprouting rosebushes. 1916 Geogr. Rev. 1 9 The shepherd, whose sheep and goats browse the bushes and grass and furnish wool and milk. 1975 Field & Stream Aug. 10/3 You will see them [sc. deer] browsing the fields and woods early in the morning. 2001 T. Flannery Eternal Frontier (U.S. ed.) xxvi. 344 The bison, it seems, kept aspen in check by intensively browsing shoots and toppling mature trees. b. intransitive. Esp. of cattle, deer, or goats: to crop and eat the young shoots, leaves, and twigs of shrubs and trees; to feed on or upon something in this way. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating by animals > feed (of animals) [verb (intransitive)] > browse browse1542 brut1674 1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xvi. sig. J.i^v At the .x. byt on the grasse, or brosynge on the tree. 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Brouter & manger, to brouze, to feede like an Oxe or Goate. 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 32^v All the bushes and boughes..were hewd downe and feld for men (like brute beastes) to brouze on. 1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus (ii. 1) 336 Cattell forsaking the..pastures to broose vpon leaues and boughes. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iii. vi. 38 There is cold meat i' th' Caue, we'l brouz on that. View more context for this quotation 1682 M. Coppinger Poems 21 I am no Mole, nor can I feed on Earth, Nor yet Camelion, to browse on Air. 1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France I. 38 Goats..browze upon the steeps of Snowdon. 1801 J. Barrow Acct. Trav. Interior S. Afr. 1797–8 I. ii. 88 Abundance of succulent plants, among which the bullocks of Africa are accustomed to brouze for want of grass. 1844 W. B. Carpenter Animal Physiol. iv. 141 The Giraffe uses its long tongue to lay hold of the young shoots on which it browzes. 1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. 74 The horses browsed on lotus-leaves. 1937 J. R. R. Tolkien Hobbit vii. 141 Small herds of red deer browsing. 1987 Ecologist Mar. 67/1 Acute shortage of fodder compels most villagers with small grazing lands to turn their cattle to browse on the forest floor. 2002 T. Pinchuck et al. Rough Guide S. Afr. (ed. 3) 860 Giraffes spend their daylight hours browsing on the leaves of trees too high for other species. c. transitive. To feed (cattle, deer, goats, etc.) on the young shoots, leaves, and twigs of shrubs and trees; to allow (animals) to feed in this way. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [verb (transitive)] > feed with specific food or meal sup1575 winter-feed1606 soil1608 supper1666 browse1675 cake1799 slop1848 mash1859 pair-feed1944 zero-graze1954 1675 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (ed. 2) vi. §2. 80 Rangers and Keepers of Parks in hard Winters have the experience of it [sc. ash], by brousing their Deer on it. 1832 R. M. Caunter Attila 137 The king Who brought the Scythian from his native hills, To browse his herds upon your richer pastures. 1876 3rd Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1875–6 74 It was customary, in years past, when farmers were short of hay, to browse their cattle, as it was called. 1913 Farm Jrnl. Feb. 121/1 When the goats are browsed on brush land their flesh has a gamey flavor resembling venison. 1991 Evil Days (Afr. Watch Rep.) vii. 128 The loss of trees..forced pastoralists to browse their animals on other and possibly less suitable trees. 2. intransitive. Of a person: to cut the leaves and twigs of trees and shrubs; to trim hedges. Cf. browser n. 1, browsing n. 2. rare (English regional (south-western) in later use). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [verb (intransitive)] > prune or lop shredc1000 browse1550 lop1594 summer prune1731 1550 in E. W. Harcourt Papers (1876) I. 21 To find the said Browsers there browsing soe long as the snow doth lye, every Browser to have to his lodging every night one Billett of wood the length of his ax-helve. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Browse, to trim the hedges—i. e. to cut the brambles and other small undergrowth which so rapidly accumulates upon the sides of our West Somerset bank hedges. 3. intransitive. Chiefly U.S. regional. To stroll or wander aimlessly; to idle, loiter. Frequently with around. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > be idle or unoccupied [verb (intransitive)] > potter or waste time in trifling activity trifle?a1400 loiterc1400 tiffc1440 tifflec1440 to pick a salad1520 to play the wanton1529 fiddle1530 dauntc1540 piddle1545 dally?1548 pittlea1568 pingle1574 puddle1591 to thrum caps1594 maginate1623 meecha1625 pudder1624 dabble1631 fanfreluche1653 dawdlea1656 taigle17.. niff-naff1728 tiddle1747 peddle1755 gammer1788 quiddle1789 muddle1791 browse1803 niddle1808 poke1811 fal-lal1818 potter1824 footer1825 putter1827 shaffle1828 to fool about1838 mike1838 piffle1847 mess1853 to muck about1856 tinker1856 bohemianize1857 to fool around1860 frivol1866 june1869 muss1876 to muddle about (also around)1877 slummock1877 dicker1888 moodle1893 to fart about1899 to fart about (or around)1899 plouter1899 futz1907 monkey1916 to arse around1919 to play around1929 to fuck around1931 tool1932 frig1933 boondoggle1935 to muck around1935 to screw around1935 to bugger about1937 to bugger around1939 to piss about1943 to dick around1948 to jerk around1953 fart-arse1954 to fanny around1969 slop1973 dork1982 to twat around (or about)1992 to dick about1996 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (intransitive)] > with no fixed aim or wander wharvec890 woreOE wandera1000 rengec1230 wagc1325 roamc1330 errc1374 raikc1390 ravec1390 rumblec1400 rollc1405 railc1425 roit1440 waverc1440 rangea1450 rove1481 to-waver1487 vaguea1525 evague1533 rangle1567 to go a-strayinga1586 vagary1598 divagate1599 obambulate1614 vagitate1614 ramble1615 divage1623 pererrate1623 squander1630 peramble1632 rink1710 ratch1801 browse1803 vagrate1807 bum1857 piroot1858 scamander1864 truck1864 bat1867 vagrant1886 float1901 vagulate1918 pissant1945 society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > go on foot [verb (intransitive)] > leisurely or idly raik?c1350 troll1377 spacea1425 jet1530 spacierc1550 snaffle1611 spatiate1626 saunter1671 stroll1680 trollopa1745 dangle1778 doiter1793 stroam1796 browse1803 soodle1821 potter1824 streek1827 streel1839 pasear1840 toddle1848 bummel1900 1803 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 17 Dec. 875 Then might we hear of the sea ports of France being reduced to ashes, and her troops instead of browsing about Calais,..would be compelled to march and countermarch to defend their own coast. 1855 C. E. De Long Jrnl. 1 Sept. in Calif. Hist. Soc. Q. (1929) 8 343 Bruised around town, reced several compliments &c. 1863 Standard 13 Jan. 5/5 The great military display at New Orleans, where our army—to use the President's own words—is ‘to browse around’ until the next yellow fever season. 1927 Amer. Speech 2 349/2 ‘What have you been doing to-day?’ ‘Oh! just brouging around.’ 1952 F. C. Brown Coll. N. Carolina Folklore I. 523 Bruise (along).., to go around slowly with no particular aim; to stroll. 2008 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 27 Mar. (Neighbors section) 9/2 My job as a forest ranger wouldn't be just browsing around the woods. 4. a. intransitive. Originally: to examine or look through various books in a library, bookshop, etc., esp. in a casual or leisurely manner. Later also: to look at various items for sale in a shop, esp. in a casual or leisurely manner. Frequently with in, through.Originally a use of sense 1b in a figurative context. ΘΚΠ society > communication > reading > [verb (intransitive)] > skim or browse browse1818 to look over ——1855 riffle1919 page1927 skim-read1931 skip-read1977 the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eat [verb (intransitive)] eatc825 to break breadeOE baitc1386 feeda1387 to take one's repast?1490 to take repast1517 repast1520 peck?1536 diet1566 meat1573 victual1577 graze1579 manger1609 to craw it1708 grub1725 scoff1798 browse1818 provender1819 muckamuck1853 to put on the nosebag1874 refect1882 restaurate1882 nosh1892 tucker1903 to muck in1919 scarf1960 snack1972 society > education > learning > study > [verb (intransitive)] > superficially scum1625 browse1818 1818 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 421/2 A Writer whom we consulted last year on this business observed, ‘the students have probably long ago obtained as binding a servitude of browsing upon this library as any man ever had of grazing his cattle upon a village common’. 1820 W. Hazlitt in London Mag. Sept. 262/1 He brouzes on the husk and leaves of books, as the young fawn browzes on the bark and leaves of trees. 1823 C. Lamb Mackery End in Elia 175 She was tumbled..into a spacious closet of good old English reading,..and browsed at will upon that fair and wholesome pasturage. 1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 9 We thus get a glimpse of him browsing—for..he was always a random reader—in his father's library. 1927 J. S. Huxley Relig. without Revelation iv. 127 Browsing in the public library at Colorado Springs,..I came across some essays of Lord Morley. 1965 Crescendo Sept. 1/1 While browsing through a local bookshop recently I came across your excellent publication. 1988 Mid-Atlantic Country Mar. 29/2 One of the best ways to become knowledgeable about styles and learn how to distinguish fine antiques from pedestrian pieces is to browse through such shops regardless of whether or not you can afford the merchandise. 2007 D. Weinberger Everything is Misc. i. 8 ‘I'm just browsing,’ you reply with a little smile. With that word, a customer declares a lack of commitment. b. transitive. To examine or look at various items in (a shop, library, or other location), esp. in a casual or leisurely manner. Also: to examine or look at (items) in this manner. ΘΚΠ society > communication > reading > [verb (transitive)] > skim or browse or skip skip1526 launch1570 to run over1577 rufflea1631 leaf1663 to run through1670 to dip into1682 skim1739 thumb-read1825 browse1903 thumb1930 riffle1938 riff1942 skim-read1954 skip-read1977 1903 N.Y. Times 5 Apr. 7/5 The little ‘den’ below Goupil & Co.'s..which is so well known to those who browse the bric-à-brac shops of Fifth Avenue. 1966 Oneonta (N.Y.) Star 12 Nov. 9/3 When you visit this friendly shop be sure to browse the mezzanine floor—the Sportswear is simply gorgeous. 1991 Notes 47 755/2 It is still impossible to allay a gnawing suspicion that finely topified bibliographies of this sort exist at the expense of the old fashioned pleasure of browsing the library stacks. 2008 BFI Southbank Programme Guide (Brit. Film Inst.) Nov. 2/2 Browse our comprehensive stock of DVDs and moving-image related books at our shop on the corner. 5. intransitive. With in, through. To peruse or glance through the contents of a book, newspaper, etc. Also transitive with the book, newspaper, etc., as object. ΚΠ 1895 Atlantic Monthly Feb. 278/2 The book is one which a book-lover will linger over, browsing in it as he would browse in the library itself. 1925 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Sept. 571/4 The little ‘wallet-book’ can be browsed in pleasurably. 1968 Listener 22 Aug. 242/3 Hobson-Jobson is not of course a book to read right through but to browse in. 1977 P. C. Venter Soweto 231 If you browse through the dailies, the spoor of violence is there. 1987 M. Dorris Yellow Raft in Blue Water (1988) ii. 18 I thought she was checking out the Classifieds,..hoping to improve her prospects, but she had browsed too long in the Arts and Leisure. 2000 F. Littauer Personality Plus for Parents 7 The father quietly slid into his seat and began to browse the menu. 6. transitive. To view or look through (information on a computer, website, etc.); to view or look through the content of (a website, the internet, etc.) using a web browser. Also (and in earliest use) with through. Also intransitive. ΚΠ 1962 P. C. Tiffany in Proc. Spring Joint Computer Conf. (Amer. Federation Information Processing Soc.) 291/1 A storage and retrieval system that permits the medical researcher to examine or browse through clinical records or abstracts is described. 1984 Amer. Archivist 47 459/1 Viewers using the disk may browse the collection by depressing a button which will cause the images to be displayed automatically at a rate of several per second. 1993 Sky Aug. 121/1 This new critter helps people browse many of the resources available on local campus networks or on the worldwide Internet. 1994 Amer. Scientist 82 420/1 Watching myself browse the Web brings up still another worry... I have spent many late nights wandering the Web from one node to the next, glassy-eyed, weary, waiting to be entertained. 1996 Internet World Nov. 59 (advt.) With UUNET Web hosting services, you get a site that's a breeze to browse through. 1997 G. Fincher in J. H. Ellsworth et al. Internet Unleashed (ed. 4) liv. 946 In the future..you'll be just as likely to be using your television or cellular phone to browse the Internet! 2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 8 Oct. d3/4 The reconfigured site allows readers to browse products by category. 2012 E. Laybourne Monument 14 (2013) iii. 39 You could watch TV on a bigtab and use it to browse and text and Skype. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹?1523n.²c1794v.1440
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