browse

BROWSE, v.t. s as z. [Gr. to eat or browse; food, but probably these words may be from sprouts.]

To eat the ends of branches of trees and shrubs or the young shoots, as cattle, or deer.

BROWSE, v.i. s as z. To feed on the tender branches or shoots of shrubs and trees, as cattle,sheep and goats.

BROWSE, n. brows. The tender branches or twigs of trees and shrubs, fit for the food of cattle and other animals.