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brow

noun
/bɹaʊ/

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”).

  1. inherited from *h₃bʰrúHs✻ — “brow”
  2. inherited from *brūwō✻
  3. inherited from *brāwu✻
  4. inherited from brū
  5. inherited from browe

Definitions

  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. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. Aspect

      Aspect; 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?"

    2. The projecting upper edge of a steep place such as a hill.

      • the brow of a precipice

    3. The first tine of an antler's beam.

    4. A gallery in a coal mine running across the face of the coal.

    5. The gangway from ship to shore when a ship is lying alongside a quay.

    6. The hinged part of a landing craft or ferry which is lowered to form a landing platform

      The hinged part of a landing craft or ferry which is lowered to form a landing platform; a ramp.

    7. To bound or limit

      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.

    8. A surname.

The neighborhood

Derived

beetle brow, beetle-browed, Berry Brow, bibrow, brow-antlered deer, browband, brow-beat, browbeat, browbeaten, browbone, browbound, browful, brow job, browless, brow-level, browlift, browline, browman, browplasty, brow ridge, browspot, Dobb Brow, eye brow, eyebrow, highbrow, low-brow, lowbrow, medium-brow, midbrow, middlebrow, monobrow, no-brow, overbrow, Scouse brow, sweat of one's brow, sweat of the brow, underbrow, unibrow, Weatherby brow

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA