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brow

(brou)

a. The superciliary ridge over the eyes.

b. The eyebrow.

c. The forehead.

2. A facial expression; countenance: "Speak you this with a sad brow?" (Shakespeare).

3. The projecting upper edge of a steep place: the brow of a hill.

[Middle English, from Old English brū; see bhrū- in Indo-European roots.]

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brow

(braʊ)

1. (Anatomy) the part of the face from the eyes to the hairline; forehead

2. (Anatomy) short for eyebrow

3. the expression of the face; countenance: a troubled brow.

4. (Mining & Quarrying) the top of a mine shaft; pithead

5. (Physical Geography) the jutting top of a hill, etc

6. dialect Northern English a steep slope on a road

[Old English brū; related to Old Norse brūn eyebrow, Lithuanian bruvis, Greek ophrus, Sanskrit bhrūs]

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brow

(braʊ)

n.

1. the ridge over the eye.

2. the hair growing on that ridge; eyebrow.

3. the forehead.

4. a person's countenance or mien.

5. the edge of a steep place.

[before 1000; Middle English browe, Old English brū]

Brow

a collection of scholars—Lipton, 1970.

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Noun	1.	brow - the part of the face above the eyes forehead face, human face - the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear; "he washed his face"; "I wish I had seen the look on his face when he got the news" feature, lineament - the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin; "an expression of pleasure crossed his features"; "his lineaments were very regular" crinion, trichion - point where the hairline meets the midpoint of the forehead
	2.	brow - the arch of hair above each eye eyebrow, supercilium hair - a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss; "he combed his hair"; "each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells" venae palpebrales - veins of the eyelids face, human face - the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear; "he washed his face"; "I wish I had seen the look on his face when he got the news"
	3.	brow - the peak of a hill; "the sun set behind the brow of distant hills" hilltop crest, summit, top, peak, tip, crown - the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill); "the view from the peak was magnificent"; "they clambered to the tip of Monadnock"; "the region is a few molecules wide at the summit"

brow

noun

1. forehead, temple She wrinkled her brow inquisitively.

2. top, summit, peak, edge, tip, crown, verge, brink, rim, crest, brim He climbed to the brow of the hill. top

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Translations

جَبينحاجِبُحَرْفُ الجَبَل

čeloobočívrchol

bakkekamøjenbrynpande

Augenbraue Braue Stirn Kuppe Bergkuppe

frente ceja cresta

harjakulmakarvaotsareuna

front sourcil

hegyorom

brúnennihæîarbrún

cima fronte sopracciglio

antakiskaktaketera

malapiereuzacs

bakkekam bryn øyenbryn panne

бровь лоб

čeloobrv

panna

alın kaş sırt yamaç

山顶眉毛额

brow

[braʊ] N

1. (= forehead) → frente f (also eyebrow) → ceja f
see also knit

2. [of hill] → cumbre f, cima f; [of cliff] → borde m

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brow

[ˈbraʊ] n

(= forehead) → front m

(= eyebrow) → sourcil m

[hill] → sommet m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

brow

(= eyebrow) → Braue f

(= forehead) → Stirn f

(of hill) → (Berg)kuppe f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

brow

[braʊ] n (forehead) → fronte f; (old) (eyebrow) → sopracciglio; (of hill) → cima; (on road) → dosso

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

brow

(brau) noun

1. the eyebrow. huge, bushy brows.

2. the forehead.

3. the top (of a hill). over the brow of the hill.

brow

n. ceño; frente.

brow

n (forehead) frente f; (eyebrow) ceja

References in classic literature ?

In thought a fine human brow is like the east when troubled with the morning.

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She had seen the mark of the Devil of Torn upon the dead brow of her mate.

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'Lawyer Lightwood,' ducking at him with a servile air, 'I am a man as gets my living, and as seeks to get my living, by the sweat of my brow. Not to risk being done out of the sweat of my brow, by any chances, I should wish afore going further to be swore in.'

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Pearl still pointed with her forefinger, and a frown gathered on her brow -- the more impressive from the childish, the almost baby-like aspect of the features that conveyed it.

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there yet is man -- Man, the divinest of all things, whose heart Hath known the shipwreck of a thousand hopes, Who bears a hundred wrinkled tragedies Upon the parchment of his brow, whose soul Strange cares have lined and interlined, until Beneath the burden of life his inmost self Bows down.

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I do not know why I had expected her to be somehow changed; she wore the same gray dress that she wore so often, neat and becoming, and her brow was as candid, her eyes as untroubled, as when I had been used to see her occupied with her household duties in the studio.

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Having gone all along the Brow, he was to return the same way and induce him to touch on the same subjects in talking with Adam, who was to meet them as if by chance at the farthest part--that beyond Mercy Farm.

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Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow -- You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone?

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"Very tired," replied Pride, seating himself on a stone by the wayside and mopping his steaming brow. "The politicians are wearing me out by pointing to their dirty records with ME, when they could as well use a stick."

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His brow was lowering, and his eyes stared darkly before him, avoiding her eyes; his mouth was tightly and contemptuously shut.

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But the king soon again became dull and indisposed; his brow was not one of those that long remain clear.

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He had recognized intelligence in the high forehead, courage in the dark eye and bent brow, and frankness in the thick lips that showed a set of pearly teeth.