Word Meanings - BROWSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The tender branches or twigs of trees and shrubs, fit for the food of cattle and other animals; green food. Spenser. Sheep, goats, and oxen, and the nobler steed, On browse, and corn, and flowery meadows feed. Dryden. (more info) browsewood, prob.

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The tender branches or twigs of trees and shrubs, fit for the food of cattle and other animals; green food. Spenser. Sheep, goats, and oxen, and the nobler steed, On browse, and corn, and flowery meadows feed. Dryden. (more info) browsewood, prob. fr. OHG. burst, G. borste, bristle; cf. also Armor.

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