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noun

Brow n.

The prominent ridge over the eye, with the hair that covers it, forming an arch above the orbit. "And his arched brow, pulled o'er his eyes, With solemn proof proclaims him wise."

The hair that covers the brow (ridge over the eyes); the eyebrow. "'T is not your inky brows, your brack silk hair."

The forehead; as, a feverish brow. "Beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow."

The general air of the countenance. "To whom thus Satan with contemptuous brow." "He told them with a masterly brow."

The edge or projecting upper part of a steep place; as, the brow of a precipice; the brow of a hill.

To bend the brow, To knit the brows, to frown; to scowl.

verb

Brow v. t. To bound to limit; to be at, or form, the edge of. (R.) "Tending my flocks hard by i' the hilly crofts That brow this bottom glade."

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"Brow" Quotes from Famous Books

... Hood, plunder the rich to relieve the poor, nor rob with an uncouth sort of courtesy, like Turpin; but he escaped from Newgate with the fetters on his limbs. This achievement, more than once repeated, has encircled his felon brow with the wreath of immortality, and made him quite a pattern thief among the populace. He was no more than twenty-three years of age at the time of his execution, and he died much pitied by the crowd. His adventures were the sole topics of conversation for months; ...

— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds • Charles Mackay

... debts which had since been constantly increasing. He was then released, but was not for some two years permitted to approach the Court. Meantime, men of not half his descent, but with an unblushing brow and unctuous tongue, had become the favourites at the palace of the Prince, who, as said before, was not bad, but ...

— After London - Wild England • Richard Jefferies

... the question that long has been looming upon the brow of a future now rapidly passing into the present. Of it the Hawaiian incident is a part—intrinsically, perhaps, a small part—but in its relations to the whole so vital that, as has been said before, a wrong decision does ...

— The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future • A. T. Mahan

... family, the respect of duty, the desire to labor, gratitude toward the Creator, and that by promising her merely what God gives to all, the sun of Heaven and the shade of the forest, what man owes to the sweat of his brow, bread and shelter—was it not a triumph for Fleur-de-Marie? Would the moralist the most severe, the preacher the most fulminating, have obtained more by their menacing threats of every vengeance, ...

— The Mysteries of Paris V2 • Eugene Sue

... now to a place where the trees thinned away on the brow of a hill, and I could see the broad waters of the haven through their trunks. We had reached the crest of that little cliff over which Wilfrith's heathen had cast themselves in the great famine from which ...

— Wulfric the Weapon Thane • Charles W. Whistler

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