Crossword clues for brow
brow
- Item often knitted
- It may be mopped or arched
- It may be mopped
- It can be pierced or furrowed
- Head feature
- Furrowed facial feature
- Facial ridge
- Facial arch
- Bert's prominent feature
- Word with eye or high
- Word after eye or uni
- Word after eye or before beat
- What a sweatband keeps dry
- Tweezing target, maybe
- Tweezable thing above the eye
- Sweat of one's --
- Something to mop
- Something the confused might knit
- Something that is furrowed
- Something often penciled in
- Site of facial furrows
- Ridge over the eyes
- Ridge over the eye
- Part of the face that you might mop or furrow
- Part of the face that you might furrow or mop
- One might be raised by a skeptic
- Often-knitted item
- Often furrowed facial feature
- NBA player Anthony Davis's nickname, with the"
- Knitted thing
- Kind of beat
- It's mopped on muggy days
- It's moppable
- It's between temples
- It may get waxed
- It may be waxed or knitted
- It may be knitted or furrowed
- It can be furrowed
- Hill part — head part
- Furrowed thing
- Furrowed part?
- Furrowed part of the face
- Furrowed or mopped body part
- Forehead — hilltop
- Facial feature that might be tweezed or threaded
- Facial feature that can be furrowed
- Eye or high follower
- Eye or high ender
- Eye covering?
- Eye add-on
- Eye accenter
- Eye accent
- Expressive body part
- Edge of a hill
- Edge of a cliff
- Body part that might be mopped
- Body part above eyes
- Arched facial feature
- Anatomical ridge
- Knitted item
- Sweat site
- It's often wiped
- It may be wiped
- It may be furrowed or knitted
- Furrowed part of the head
- It may be mopped or furrowed
- Perspiration location
- Knitted body part
- Forehead feature
- Arch above the eye
- It's arched above the eye
- Sweat spot?
- It's often knitted
- Eye liner?
- Head piece?
- A skeptic may raise one
- Something that's knitted
- The peak of a hill
- The part of the face above the eyes
- The arch of hair above each eye
- High or low follower
- Edge of a steep place
- Area over an eye or eyes
- Oft-furrowed feature
- Mopper's target, at times
- The ___, Dick Tracy foe
- Crest
- Facial feature that's tweezed and shaped
- It might be arched
- Oft mopped feature
- Top of a cliff
- The ___, Dick Tracy adversary
- "Your bonny ___ was brent": Burns
- High or eye
- Sweat producer
- Peak of a hill
- Hill summit
- Eye feature
- Face part that may be mopped
- Botox target
- Moppable body part
- Something to furrow
- It's furrowed in a frown
- It may be wrinkled or knitted
- It ends at the hairline
- Hill crest
- Head line
- Furrowed feature
- Wrinkled or furrowed item
- It may be knitted, wrinkled or mopped
- Head front
- Furrowed item
- Furrowed body part
- Eye line
- Thing that may be penciled in
- Sweatband site
- Something furrowed
- Place to see big bangs?
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brow \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.
--Milton.
Brow \Brow\ (brou), n. [OE. browe, bruwe, AS. br[=u]; akin to AS. br[=ae]w, bre['a]w, eyelid, OFries. br[=e], D. braauw, Icel. br[=a], br[=u]n, OHG. pr[=a]wa, G. braue, OSlav. br[u^]v[i^], Russ. brove, Ir. brai, Ir. & Gael. abhra, Armor. abrant, Gr. 'ofry`s, Skr. bhr[=u]. Cf. Bray a bank, Bridge.]
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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.
--Churchill. -
The hair that covers the brow (ridge over the eyes); the eyebrow.
'T is not your inky brows, your brack silk hair.
--Shak. -
The forehead; as, a feverish brow.
Beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow.
--Shak. -
The general air of the countenance.
To whom thus Satan with contemptuous brow.
--Milton.He told them with a masterly brow.
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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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., browes, brues "brow, forehead, eyebrow," earlier brouwes (c.1300), bruwen (c.1200), from Old English bru, probably originally "eyebrow," but extended to "eyelash," then "eyelid" by association of the hair of the eyebrow with the hair of the eyelid, the eyebrows then becoming Old English oferbrua "overbrows" (early Middle English uvere breyhes or briges aboue þe eiges).\n
\nThe general word for "eyebrow" in Middle English was brew, breowen (c.1200), from Old English bræw (West Saxon), *brew (Anglian), from Proto-Germanic *bræwi- "blinker, twinkler" (cognates: Old Frisian bre, Old Saxon brawa, Middle Dutch brauwe "eyelid," Old High German brawa"eyebrow," Old Norse bra "eyebrow," Gothic brahw "twinkle, blink," in phrase in brahwa augins "in the twinkling of an eye").\n
\nOld English bru is from Proto-Germanic *brus- "eyebrow" (source also of Old Norse brun), from PIE *bhru- "eyebrow" (cognates: Sanskrit bhrus "eyebrow," Greek ophrys, Old Church Slavonic bruvi, Lithuanian bruvis "brow," Old Irish bru "edge"). The -n- in the Old Norse (brun) and German (braune) forms of the word are from a genitive plural inflection.\n
\nWords for "eyelid," "eyelash," and "eyebrow" changed about maddeningly in Old and Middle English (and in all the West Germanic languages). By 1530s, brow had been given an extended sense of "forehead," especially with reference to movements and expressions that showed emotion or attitude.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The ridge over the eyes; the eyebrow (http://en.wikipedi
org/wiki/Eyebrow). 2 The first tine of an antler's beam. 3 The forehead (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forehead). v
To bound or limit; to be at, or form, the edge of.
WordNet
n. the part of the face above the eyes [syn: forehead]
the arch of hair above each eye [syn: eyebrow, supercilium]
the peak of a hill; "the sun set behind the brow of distant hills" [syn: hilltop]
Wikipedia
Brow may refer to:
- Eyebrow, an area of thick, delicate hairs above the eye
- Forehead, the fore part of the human head
- Entryway for boarding the ship similar to a gangplank
- Brow, Dumfries and Galloway, hamlet in Scotland
Usage examples of "brow".
But in the great Sperm Whale, this high and mighty god-like dignity inherent in the brow is so immensely amplified, that gazing on it, in that full front view, you feel the Deity and the dread powers more forcibly than in beholding any other object in living nature.
The maester sat silent while the fool set the antlered bucket on his brow.
Her artless dalliance and grace-- The joy that lighted up her brow-- The sweet expression of her face-- Her form--it stands before me now!
One or two leaned against the rock wall, pressing their brows to the damp stone as if that might assuage their growing thirst.
This person was attired in black, with a broad-leaved hat pulled down over his brows.
Spellbound by his loveliness, I experienced those familiar feelings of longing to touch his untidy, black hair, coax desire from his sensual yet passionless mouth, and ease the frown from his autocratic brow.
His mind, however, turned on increasing the number of persons among whom the poor bankrupt might show himself with an open brow, and an eye that could meet the eyes of his fellows.
The baronet put his hand to his brow as his mind travelled into consequences.
My brows were heavy, my intellects benumbed, my sinews enfeebled, and my sensations universally unquiet.
The foremost of the two was Sir Giles Mompesson, and his usually stern and sinister features had acquired a yet more inauspicious cast, from the deathlike paleness that bespread them, as well as from the fillet bound round his injured brow.
The enticingly slender nose, the elegant cheekbones, and the delicate structure of her winsome face in its entirety were admirable enough to bestir the heart of many of his gender, but it was her large, silkily lashed dark eyes, slanting ever-so-slightly upward beneath gracefully sweeping brows, that revived images of the young, gangly sprite she had once been.
For glaunsing ee, or brow so brent, Or cheek with rose and lilye blent, Me lists not ficht with the.
Then, when Asher raised his brows, the old man flushed an unhealthy, blotchy pink.
The last Evanthya saw of Fetnalla, she was merely standing beside Brail, gazing back at her and looking lovely in the silver-grey light, her white hair, dampened by the mist, clinging to her brow.
Dark fur bristled across his brow as he reached down and lifted the disk with his fingers.