An archaic or dialectal variant of 'browse,' meaning to feed on leaves and twigs or to casually look through something.
A variant spelling of 'browse,' from Old French 'brouster' or Germanic sources. Early spelling variations were common before standardization.
Medieval texts are full of variant spellings like this—a reminder that English spelling only became standardized with dictionaries in the 18th century!
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