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the browser

browse (v.) = mid-15c., "feed on buds," from Middle French brouster, from Old French broster "to sprout, bud," from brost "young shoot, twig," probably from Proto-Germanic *brust- "bud, shoot," from PIE *bhreus- "to swell, sprout" (see breast (n.)). Lost its final -t in English on the mistaken notion that the letter was a past participle inflection.

Synonyms for browse:

   look around
   look through
   flip through
   leaf through
   peruse
   read 
   scan
   skim
   feed
   graze
   nibble
   survey
   check over
   dip into
   examine cursorily
   get the cream
   give the once over
   glance at
   hit the high spots 
   inspect loosely
   once over lightly
   pass an eye over
   read here and there
   riff through 
   riffle through
   run through
   skip through 
   thumb through