brouze

Noun

browse (countable and uncountable, plural browses)

1. (uncountable) Young shoots and twigs.
   • And with their horned feet the greene gras wore, / The whiles their Gotes upon the brouzes fedd […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
2. (uncountable) Fodder for cattle and other animals.
   • The Grand Canyon seems to us Mormons to mark the line. There's enough browse here to feed a hundred thousand cattle. But water's the thing.1910, Zane Grey, The Heritage of the Desert
3. (countable) The act of browsing through something.
   • I had a browse in the old bookshop.
4. (countable) That which one browses through; something to read.
   • Here he buried himself in a close-printed, thickish volume which had been his chosen browse for some time.1899, Rudyard Kipling, Stalky & Co.
5. (Cornwall, uncountable) Bruised fish used as bait.
   • He cast in his hook-and-line, intending to take one fish only for his supper, from the multitude that always came around the rock on which he stood as soon as he cast in "browse" (garbage to attract fish).1873, William Bottrell, Traditions and hearthside stories of west Cornwall, page 145

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