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What does "browse" mean?

Browse: 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. Shak.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze. Fields . . . browsed by deep-uddered kine. Tennyson.
  2. 3.To feed on the tender branches or shoots of shrubs or trees, as do cattle, sheep, and deer.
  3. 4.To pasture; to feed; to nibble. Shak.

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