browse     (brouz)
v. browsed, brows·ing, brows·es
v. intr.
    1. To inspect something leisurely and casually: browsed through the map collection for items of interest.
    2. To read something superficially by selecting passages at random: browsed through the report during lunch.
  2. To feed on leaves, young shoots, and other vegetation; graze.

v. tr.
  1. To look through or over (something) casually: browsed the newspaper; browsing the gift shops for souvenirs.
    1. To nibble; crop.
    2. To graze on.

n.
  1. Young twigs, leaves, and shoots that are fit for animals to eat.
  2. An act of browsing.


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brow·ser     (brouzr)
n.
  1. One that browses.
  2. Computer Science. A program that accesses and displays files and other data available on the Internet and other networks.

Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.


browser

\Brows"er\ (brouz"[~e]r), n. An animal that browses.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.