browse

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To inspect something leisurely and casually.
• intransitive verb To read something superficially by selecting passages at random.
• intransitive verb To look for information on the Internet.
• intransitive verb To feed on leaves, young shoots, and other vegetation; graze.
• intransitive verb To look through or over (something) casually.
• intransitive verb To read (websites) casually on the Internet.
• intransitive verb To nibble; crop.
• intransitive verb To graze on.
• noun Young twigs, leaves, and shoots that are fit for animals to eat.
• noun An act of browsing.

from The Century Dictionary.

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

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The tender branches or twigs of trees and shrubs, fit for the food of cattle and other animals; green food.
• intransitive verb To feed on the tender branches or shoots of shrubs or trees, as do cattle, sheep, and deer.
• intransitive verb To pasture; to feed; to nibble; to graze.
• intransitive verb To look casually through a book, books, or a set of documents, reading those parts which arouse one's interest.
• intransitive verb To search through a group of items to find something, not previously specified, which may be of interest.
• transitive verb To eat or nibble off, as the tender branches of trees, shrubs, etc.; -- said of cattle, sheep, deer, and some other animals.
• transitive verb To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze.
• transitive verb 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.
• transitive verb (Computers) To look at a series of electronic documents on a computer screen by means of a browser{2}.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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