browse

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
browse /braʊz/

▶verb

• 1 survey goods or text in a leisurely and casual way.

  ■ Computing read or survey (data files) via a network.

• 2 (of an animal) feed on leaves, twigs, etc.

▶noun

• 1 an act of browsing.

• 2 vegetation eaten by animals.

– derivatives
browsable adjective.

– origin ME: from OFr. broster, from brost ‘young shoot’, prob. of Gmc origin.