browser

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

browser
    n 1: a viewer who looks around casually without seeking anything
         in particular
    2: a program used to view HTML documents [syn: {browser}, {web
       browser}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Browser \Brows"er\ (brouz"[~e]r), n.
   1. An animal that browses.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Computers) a computer program that permits the user to
      view multiple electronic documents in a flexible sequence
      by the process of activating hypertext "buttons" within
      one document, which serves as a reference to the location
      of related document. The term is currently (late 1990's)
      used mostly for programs which allow traversing hypertext
      paths in documents on the internet. A typical browser will
      permit the user to easily reverse direction, and view
      again documents previously accessed.
      [PJC]

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)

browser
 n.

   A program specifically designed to help users view and navigate
   hypertext, on-line documentation, or a database. While this general
   sense has been present in jargon for a long time, the proliferation of
   browsers for the World Wide Web after 1992 has made it much more
   popular and provided a central or default techspeak meaning of the
   word previously lacking in hacker usage. Nowadays, if someone mentions
   using a `browser' without qualification, one may assume it is a Web
   browser.

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

browser

   <hypertext> A program which allows a person to read
   {hypertext}.  The browser gives some means of viewing the
   contents of {nodes} (or "pages") and of {navigating} from one
   node to another.

   {Netscape Navigator}, {NCSA} {Mosaic}, {Lynx}, and {W3} are
   examples for browsers for the {World-Wide Web}.  They act as
   {clients} to remote {web servers}.

   (1996-05-31)