browse

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To inspect something leisurely and casually: browsed through the map collection for items of interest.
2. v. To read something superficially by selecting passages at random: browsed through the report during lunch.
3. v. To look for information on the Internet.
4. v. To feed on leaves, young shoots, and other vegetation; graze.
5. v. To look through or over (something) casually: browsed the newspaper; browsing the gift shops for souvenirs.
6. v. To read (websites) casually on the Internet.
7. v. To nibble; crop.
8. v. To graze on.
9. n. Young twigs, leaves, and shoots that are fit for animals to eat.
10. n. An act of browsing.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The tender shoots or twigs of shrubs and trees, such as cattle may eat; green food fit for cattle, deer, etc. Also spelled browze.
2. To feed on; pasture on; graze: said of cattle, deer, etc.
3. To nibble and consume; eat off: said of cattle.
4. To graze; specifically, to feed on the tender shoots, branches, or bark of shrubs and trees: said of herbivorous animals.
5. To feed: said of human beings.
6. n. In metallurgy, imperfectly smelted ore.

Wiktionary

1. v. To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand.
2. v. To move about while sampling, such as with food or products on display.
3. v. computing To successively load hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser.
4. v. of an animal To move about while eating parts of plants, especially plants other than pasture, such as shrubs or trees.
5. n. Young shoots and twigs.
6. n. Fodder for cattle and other animals.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The tender branches or twigs of trees and shrubs, fit for the food of cattle and other animals; green food.
2. v. To eat or nibble off, as the tender branches of trees, shrubs, etc.; -- said of cattle, sheep, deer, and some other animals.
3. v. To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze.
4. v. To look casually through (a book, books, or a set of documents), reading those parts which arouse one's interest. Contrasted with scan, in which one typically is searching for something specific.
5. v. (Computers) To look at a series of electronic documents on a computer screen by means of a browser{2}.
6. v. To feed on the tender branches or shoots of shrubs or trees, as do cattle, sheep, and deer.
7. v. To pasture; to feed; to nibble; to graze.
8. v. To look casually through a book, books, or a set of documents, reading those parts which arouse one's interest.
9. v. To search through a group of items to find something, not previously specified, which may be of interest.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. vegetation (such as young shoots, twigs, and leaves) that is suitable for animals to eat
2. n. the act of feeding by continual nibbling
3. v. eat lightly, try different dishes
4. v. look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular
5. n. reading superficially or at random
6. v. shop around; not necessarily buying
7. v. feed as in a meadow or pasture