brow

nounverbattested in dialogue

//bɹaʊ//

The bony ridge over the eyes, upon which the eyebrows are located.

noun

1
The bony ridge over the eyes, upon which the eyebrows are located.
2
The eyebrow.
’Tis not your inky brows, your black silk hair, / Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream / That can entame my spirits to your worship.
And his arch’d brow, pulled o’er his eyes, / With solemn proof proclaims him wise.
3
The forehead.
Thy spirit within thee hath been so at war, And thus hath so bestirr’d thee in thy sleep, That beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow Like bubbles in a late-disturb’d stream,[…]
Mr. Banks’ panama hat was in one hand, while the other drew a handkerchief across his perspiring brow.
4
figurativeAspect; appearance; facial expression.
Take it away; I'm frightened! / But she, with placid brow, / Cries: "This is our Kitty-witty! / Why don't you love her now?"
5
The projecting upper edge of a steep place such as a hill.
the brow of a precipice
6
The first tine of an antler's beam.
7
A gallery in a coal mine running across the face of the coal.
8
The gangway from ship to shore when a ship is lying alongside a quay.
9
The hinged part of a landing craft or ferry which is lowered to form a landing platform; a ramp.

Etymology

From Middle English browe, from Old English brū, from Proto-West Germanic *brāwu, from Proto-Germanic *brūwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃bʰrúHs (“brow”). Cognate with Scots broo (“brow”), Dutch brauw (“brow”), German Braue (“eyebrow”), Danish, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish bryn (“brow”), Faroese, Icelandic brún (“brow”). See also Middle Irish brúad, Tocharian B pärwāne (“eyebrows”), Lithuanian bruvi̇̀s, Serbo-Croatian obrva (“eyebrow”), Russian бровь (brovʹ, “brow”), Ancient Greek ὀφρύς (ophrús, “eyebrow”), Sanskrit भ्रू (bhrū, “eyebrow”)), Persian ابرو (abru, “eyebrow”), Khowar بروُ (bruú, “eyebrow”).

verb

1
To bound or limit; to be at, or form, the edge of.
Tending my flocks hard by i' the hilly crofts / That brow this bottom glade.

Forms

plural: brows
past tense: browed
past participle: browed
present participle: browing
third person singular: brows

Brother · Title of respect for an adult male member of a religious or…brother-in-law · A male relative of one's generation, separated by one degree…brotherhood · The state of being brothers or a brother (also figuratively).

brow · The bony ridge over the eyes, upon which the eyebrows are located.

Brow · A surname.brown · A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.Brown · A surname.

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