Crossword clues for browsed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Browse \Browse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Browsed (brouzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Browsing.] [For broust, OF. brouster, bruster, F. brouter. See Browse, n., and cf. Brut.]
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To eat or nibble off, as the tender branches of trees, shrubs, etc.; -- said of cattle, sheep, deer, and some other animals.
Yes, like the stag, when snow the plasture sheets, The barks of trees thou browsedst.
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To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze.
Fields . . . browsed by deep-uddered kine.
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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.
3. (Computers) To look at a series of electronic documents on a computer screen by means of a browser[2].
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: browse)
Usage examples of "browsed".
Why, he had passed within a dozen paces of a great herd of these diminutive, hairless mammoths and they had but raised their little, pig eyes and glanced at him, as they flapped their great ears back and forth against the annoying flies and browsed upon the branches of young trees.
Upon the plain, herds of antelope, bison and bos browsed in tall grasses and wild grains.
Yes, she understood what that meant, that she was no longer in the wide oceans of Earth but in a small, self-contained ocean of her own that drifted through emptiness, a folded-over ocean she shared only with the darting fish and the smaller, mindless animals and plants on which they browsed.
She was swimming out through layers of life, and she sensed the subtle sounds of living things washing through the sphere: the smooth rush of the fish as they swam in their tight schools, the bubbling murmur of the krill on which they browsed, the hiss of the diatoms and algae that fed them, and the deep infrasonic rumble of the water itself, compression waves pulsing through its bulk.
If turf which has long been mown, and the case would be the same with turf closely browsed by quadrupeds, be let to grow, the more vigorous plants gradually kill the less vigorous, though fully grown, plants: thus out of twenty species growing on a little plot of turf (three feet by four) nine species perished from the other species being allowed to grow up freely.
But on looking closely between the stems of the heath, I found a multitude of seedlings and little trees, which had been perpetually browsed down by the cattle.
Matthew handed the binder to William, who opened it in his lap and was silent for a few moments as he browsed through the various sections.
Six-legged rodents scurried underhoof, and creatures not altogether unlike antelopes browsed in the briefer grass and fled at our approach.
Snow also bogged down animals that requ1 firm ground, and it was difficult for many to push aside to reach Deer could live in woods where the snow was deep, but only De they browsed leaves and twig tips from trees that grew above the s reindeer could dig through snow to reach the lichen on which they in winter.
Both species preferred yindy, dry land, but the rhinos liked grass and sedge, and true to the goatlike creatures they were, browsed on wood- Large reindeer and the gigantic megaceroses with massive i shared the frozen land, and horses with thick winter coats, e was one animal that stood out among the populations in f the upper course of the Great Mother River, it was mam rer grew tired of watching the huge beasts.
A general knowledge of where the others browsed was useful in preventing territorial disputes.
He browsed, barely thinking, for days, his mind adrift in a place halfway between dreaming and wakefulness.
He browsed amid long grasses, slaked his thirst at water hole or forest stream.