1. To eat lightly, try different dishes; SYN. graze.
2. To look around casually and randomly, as through files and directories on a computer.

To scan a database, a list of files, or the Internet, either for a particular item or for anything that seems to be of interest. Generally, browsing implies observing, rather than changing, information. In unauthorized computer hacking, browsing is a (presumably) nondestructive means of finding out about an unknown computer after illegally gaining entry.

ETYM Old Fren. brost, broust, sprout, shoot, French brouter browse, browsewood, prob. from Old High Germ. burst, German borste, bristle; cf. also Armor. brousta to browse. Related to Bristle, Brush.
(Homonym: brows).
1. Reading superficially or at random; SYN. browsing.
2. The act of feeding by continual nibbling; SYN. browsing.