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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The superciliary ridge over the eyes.
  • n. The eyebrow.
  • n. The forehead.
  • n. A facial expression; countenance: "Speak you this with a sad brow?” ( Shakespeare).
  • n. The projecting upper edge of a steep place: the brow of a hill.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The ridge over the eyes; the eyebrow (Wikipedia).
  • n. The first tine of an antler's beam.
  • n. The forehead (Wikipedia).
  • n. The projecting upper edge of a steep place such as a hill.
  • n. The gangway from ship to shore when a ship is lying alongside a quay.
  • n. The hinged part of a landing craft or ferry which is lowered to form a landing platform; a ramp.
  • v. To bound or limit; to be at, or form, the edge of.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The prominent ridge over the eye, with the hair that covers it, forming an arch above the orbit.
  • n. The hair that covers the brow (ridge over the eyes); the eyebrow.
  • n. The forehead.
  • n. The general air of the countenance.
  • n. The edge or projecting upper part of a steep place.
  • v. To bound to limit; to be at, or form, the edge of.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The prominent ridge over the eye, forming an arch above the orbit.
  • n. The arch of hair over the eye; the eyebrow.
  • n. The forehead.
  • n. The general expression of the countenance.
  • n. In entomology, that part of an insect's head which lies between the clypeus and the vertex, generally just above the antennæ.
  • n. The edge of a steep place; the upper portion of a slope: as, “the brow of the hill,” Luke iv. 29.
  • n. In England, a fringe of coppice adjoining the hedge of a field.
  • n. In coal-mining, an underground roadway leading to a working-place, driven either to the rise or to the dip.
  • n. Nautical, an old name for an inclined plane of planks from the shore or the ground to a ship, to facilitate entry and exit. In this sense also spelled brough.
  • n. In a saw-mill, an incline up which logs are drawn to be sawed.
  • n. View; opinion: in the phrases an ill brow, an unfavorable opinion; nae brow, no good opinion.
  • To form a brow or elevated border to.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the part of the face above the eyes
  • n. the arch of hair above each eye
  • n. the peak of a hill
  • Equivalent
    Verb Form
    browed    browes    brows   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    lineament    feature    hair    peak    crown    summit    crest    tip    top   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bilbao    Bow    Chao    Chow    Dow    Frau    Howe    Lao    Liao    Macao   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    forehead    eyebrow    lip    countenance    shoulder    gaze    face    breast    chin    smile