What is "browses"

Usage examples of "browses".

Then through the broomy bound with ease they pass, And press the sandy sheep-walk’s slender grass, Where dwarfish flowers among the gorse are spread, And the lamb browses by the linnet’s bed.

They browse on them, as the animal to which they would not like to be compared browses on his thistles.

Alexander was deservedly celebrated for possessing all the pertinacity of a bankruptcy-court attorney, combined with the obstinacy of that useful animal which browses on the thistle, he required but little tuition.

The earth browses upon a circular path in the fields of space, and as it moves the ether is continually pouring through it and providing its vitality.

Here Pegasus gallops and browses upon song which the larks bring to him every morning from far terrestrial fields.