browse

  1. Verb.  To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand.
  2. Verb.  To move about while sampling, such as with food or products on display.
  3. Verb.  (computing) To successively load hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser.
  4. Verb.  (context, of an animal) To move about while eating parts of plants, especially plants other than pasture, such as shrubs or trees.
  5. Noun.  The shrub and tree parts eaten by browsing animals.

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