browsyadj.

1585 J. Sharrock tr. C. Ocland Valiant Actes & Victorious Battailes Eng. Nation i. sig. Ciii On th'other side adiacent lye..darksome dennes, where brousie beastes of sauage kinde [L. hirtarum..ferarum] remaine.

1709 A. Aston Coy Shepherdess 2 While Ascending to the Browzy Rocks, And help the Shepherd to drive home his Flocks.

1738 W. Ellis Timber-tree Improved I. ii. 42 These [beech sets] being of the Tree Kind..will get a brousy, bushy Head, like the shrubby Sort.

1790 J. Rannie Pastorals (ed. 2) ii. 9 The weary goats forsake the browzy hill, To draw new spirit from the shrinking rill.

1836 E. Baines Hist. Lancaster (new ed.) IV. 647 The interior is now a browzy pasture, of uneven surface, covered in many places with masses of fallen stone.

1841 J. Rathborne Church in Relations with Truth & State v. 60 The browsy sides of the Grampian Hills.

1858 Horticulturist Apr. 160 The waving plumes of the lordly pines, the aspiring cones of the stately spruces, the dense, browsy masses of the symmetrical arborvitæ.

1904 B. E. McLin Florida iii. 315 Fine hammock lands, the natural home of the orange and lemon, are interspersed with browsy meadows.

2015 B. Hewitt & P. Hewitt Nourishing Homestead vi. 179 They [sc. sheep]..thrive on substandard, ‘browsy’ pasture.

1908 W. T. Eldridge Meryl iii. 29 A browsy hour or two over a book of poems.

1910 A. Bennett Jrnl. 20 Oct. (1932) I. 388 Miscellaneous browsy reading in the evening.

1966 Guardian 6 May 9/3 A very quiet, wise, browsy sort of book about country life.

2010 West Briton (Nexis) 3 June 23 It's a bit of a browsy environment and it if rains we have a captive audience and are not competing with the traffic.