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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One that browses.
  2. n. Computer Science A program that accesses and displays files and other data available on the Internet and other networks.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One who browses. Also spelled browzer.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A person or animal who browses.
  2. n. A person who, while shopping, purchases nothing.
  3. n. computing A web browser.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. An animal that browses.
  2. n. (Computers) a computer program that permits the user to view multiple electronic documents in a flexible sequence by the process of activating hypertext “buttons” within one document, which serves as a reference to the location of related document. The term is currently (late 1990's) used mostly for programs which allow traversing hypertext paths in documents on the internet. A typical browser will permit the user to easily reverse direction, and view again documents previously accessed.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a viewer who looks around casually without seeking anything in particular
  2. n. a program used to view HTML documents

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  • mollusque Or compare bowser and gazer. Aug 31, 2008

  • mollusque Compare grazer. Aug 30, 2008

  • reesetee Well, that's a relief. Otherwise, where would we find Wordie? Aug 29, 2008

  • chained_bear All this time I thought it was software. Come to find out, "A browser is an animal that eats tall foliage (leaves or trees and shrubs). Many sauropod dinosaurs, like Brachiosaurus and Ultrasauros, were browsers. Browsers generally don't kill the plant they eat." Aug 28, 2008

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‘browser’ has been looked up 2007 times, added to 12 lists, commented on 4 times, and has a Scrabble score of 12.