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from The Century Dictionary.

  • See bruise.

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Examples

  • In a traditional library it had been possible to "brouse" or wander into the stacks and orient by subject and title proximity.

    futureofthebook.com 2008

  • In a traditional library it had been possible to "brouse" or wander into the stacks and orient by subject and title proximity.

    futureofthebook.com 2008

  • I am not a biologist but I have been told the reason they do not like this in the North is because it kills a bacteria in a deers intestines and he can not brake down the brouse that is a large part of their winter feed and they actualy starve with a full stomach of brouse.

    Seven Reasons to Stop Baiting Whitetails Now 2009

  • I am not a biologist but I have been told the reason they do not like this in the North is because it kills a bacteria in a deers intestines and he can not brake down the brouse that is a large part of their winter feed and they actualy starve with a full stomach of brouse.

    Seven Reasons to Stop Baiting Whitetails Now 2009

  • The problem I have with the first path is motivating my friend to do just that: brouse.

    The Gatekeepers of Genre « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2010

  • Early in my Peace Corps stint I was wedged between two big men in the middle seat of a “taxi brouse” Peugout 404 station wagon on a very hot day barreling along a sandy stretch of Highway 1 in northern Senegal near the Sahara.

    What’s the Weirdest Experience of Your Life? 2010

  • I think what commonly happens, in my experience, is that we have people with little familiarity with technology other than how to create a web page and brouse the web and cursory understanding of what the letters TCP/IP means assuming that this stuff just exploded from private interprise.

    More Wood Chip Commentary, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Yeah I have real problems, but then again, what brouse doesn't?

    Friendly Sharpies kludge 2007

  • You can use it to brouse the agreement between the rainbow alliance HERE

    Archive 2007-06-01 2007

  • Most of the books were in remote storage, so you couldn't brouse thru and find all the authors writing on your research topic, you either had to know exactly what you needed or make wild-ass guesses out of the card catalog - then wait a day for them to be dug out for you by grouchy librarians frustrated with having no shelving.

    The excuse of architecture Kay Olson 2005

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