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"Where the heifers browse -- where geese nip their food with short jerks;

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  1. intransitive verb To inspect something leisurely and casually: browsed through the map collection for items of interest.
  2. intransitive verb To read something superficially by selecting passages at random: browsed through the report during lunch.
  3. intransitive verb To look for information on the Internet.
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  1. Probably from obsolete French broust, young shoot, from Old French brost, of Germanic origin.

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  1. apparently for *broust, from Old French broust, a sprout, shoot, bud, French brout, browse, browse-wood (cf. Spanish broza, rubbish of leaves, etc., brota, brote, germ of a vine, bud of trees, thickets, rubbish), prob. from Middle High German broz, German dial. (Bavarian) bross, brosst, a bud (cf. Breton brous, a bud, shoot, broust, a thick bush, brousta, browse; prob. from the F.); cf. Old Saxon brustian, sprout, and see brush.
  2. Also browze, early modern English also brouse, brouze, brooze, apparently for *broust, from Old French brouster, French brouter (cf. English dial. brut, browse) = Provencal brostar, nibble off the buds, sprouts, and bark of plants, browse, from Old French broust, a sprout, shoot, bud: see browse, n.
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