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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
forehead
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
plant a kiss on sb's cheek/forehead etc (=to kiss someone on their cheek etc)
▪ Stephen planted a kiss on his daughter’s forehead.
rub your nose/chin/eyes/forehead etc
▪ She yawned and rubbed her eyes.
sweat stands out on sb's forehead (=there are drops of sweat on sb's forehead)
▪ Sweat stood out on Ian's forehead.
wipe the sweat from your brow/forehead
▪ He wiped the sweat from his brow and carried on digging.
wrinkled...forehead
▪ Carter wrinkled his forehead in concentration.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
high
▪ A round face with a high forehead, blue eyes, short straight nose, a mantle of shining, fair hair.
▪ One fellow with a high forehead and Iank shoulder-length hair sang some poems, accompanying himself on the guitar.
▪ Her high forehead was knit in concentration as she listened to the the litigator.
▪ BDe Mori is a handsome man with light blue eyes and a high, aristocratic forehead.
▪ Her oval face with its large dark eyes and high forehead was set on a long, graceful neck.
▪ He was tall and skinny, with a high bald forehead and a mantle of long hair half way down his back.
white
▪ Immature lacks white forehead and eye-ring.
▪ It also differs from the more numerous Forster's in having a yellow bill and white forehead.
▪ One whale suffered from ` a peculiar snow-#white wrinkled forehead...
▪ Both are dark-backed, white-bodied terns with dark caps and a white forehead.
▪ Coots are the only all-black waterfowl with a conspicuous white forehead and bill, dumpier than most ducks; legs green.
▪ Redstarts flicked long chestnut tails and flashed white foreheads as they chased in and out of the branches.
▪ Immatures have paler markings on upperparts, white forehead and reddish legs.
▪ Noddies have a dark body with a white forehead or cap.
wide
▪ There were lines of concentration across his wide, high forehead, and lines of sadness around his mouth.
■ VERB
fall
▪ Somehow she had disturbed his hair, and it fell boyishly over his forehead.
▪ He was absorbed in eating, and his blond, straight hair fell forward over his forehead.
▪ He looked up at her through the hair falling over his forehead, black against the bandages.
▪ His Straight brown hair fell half-combed across his forehead, and his clothes were clean but rumpled.
▪ His fair hair was parted on one side, and a lock of it fell across his forehead.
▪ And he was dressed only in faded jeans, his torso quite bare, his dark curly hair falling over his forehead.
feel
▪ He got up, crossed to the boy, and felt his forehead.
▪ He calculated furiously and felt his forehead grow slick with sweat.
▪ Mum felt my forehead and gave me a worried cuddle.
▪ I felt my forehead and it seemed to be warm.
▪ She didn't feel him bathe her forehead or moisten her lips from time to time.
▪ I reached out to feel your forehead, but you burned so hot I could not touch you with my bare hands.
▪ Jess put down the lanthorn and felt his forehead.
▪ Brown felt the forehead and opened the eyelids.
kiss
▪ Her sons kissed her on the forehead.
▪ I kissed her forehead and her cheeks, her hair and her throat.
▪ The rain fell silently and invisibly, kissing his scarred forehead.
▪ She cradled his head in her hands and kissed him on the forehead.
▪ He pulled her to him, stroking her hair and kissing her forehead.
▪ Then he kissed my forehead and quietly slipped out of the room.
▪ Regretfully he kissed her forehead, extracted himself from her embrace and sent her on her way to a virtuous bed.
▪ She kissed her forehead, tasting the saltiness of her skin with the tip of her tongue.
press
▪ At the window she pressed her forehead against the cold glass.
▪ He pressed his forehead against the glass and stared down.
▪ She pressed her forehead against the cool glass and for two minutes she did not move.
▪ Other days, she would draw the curtains in their room and lie in bed with a cloth pressed to her forehead.
▪ Something cool and damp was pressed to her forehead.
▪ An intolerable weight seemed to press on her forehead and slowly she slid into sleep.
▪ Then, almost calm, pressed his forehead against the iron bars of his prison.
▪ She pressed her forehead against the glass of the window, a flag of thick dark-brown hair hanging down her back.
rest
▪ She rested a damp forehead on her hand.
▪ She doubled up in pain, and rested her forehead on the carpeted floor.
▪ She bowed her head, resting her forehead against the fence.
▪ She leaned against the window, resting her forehead on the glass, enjoying its cool smoothness.
▪ She rested her forehead against his shoulder.
▪ She leaned against the steering-wheel, resting her forehead on her folded arms.
▪ She stopped and rested her forehead against the cold metal walls of the corridor.
rub
▪ Boltwood rubbed a little on the forehead of a four year-old who immune system was severely depressed.
▪ He rubbed his forehead, a look of dismay on his face that Rob had never seen there before.
▪ Craig rubbed at his forehead in a mingling of anger and despair.
▪ Then he rubbed his forehead. ` Sorry.
slap
▪ You could almost hear Slobodan Milosevic slapping his forehead: Oh, so that's how it's done.
stroke
▪ She stroked Anna's forehead, as much to quieten her own resentment as to soothe Anna.
▪ He sat on the stool at the head of the bed and stroked my forehead and my hair.
▪ I stroke Timmy's forehead more and more lightly, until I am stroking empty air.
▪ She would get really worried and stroke my forehead and plead with me not to talk about dying.
tap
▪ Shaker gave a loose salute, and the grinning ensign tapped his forehead with a finger.
touch
▪ Then he bowed low, touching his forehead almost to the board.
▪ My lips have touched thy forehead, once.
▪ She dipped her thumb into the bowl and then touched Sigarup's forehead, marking a yellow between his eyes.
▪ Swing your right knee toward the front, so that it almost touches your forehead.
▪ The end of the lash just touched her forehead.
▪ Tipping himself forwards, he touched his forehead to the tile and kicked into the air.
▪ Agnes touched her forehead, and drew her hand back sharply. ` She's burning up!
▪ She went back to the bed and touched her grandmother's forehead with the handkerchief.
wipe
▪ I pulled it off gently, so as not to wake him, moistened a handkerchief with cologne and wiped his forehead.
▪ When the man did not stop to spit or wipe his forehead, each row took him approximately two minutes.
▪ He pushed the pad aside, took a sip of orange juice, wiped his forehead, and went on typing.
▪ You wipe your forehead, and feel the moisture on the palm of your hand-you wipe your hand on your pants.
▪ Shelley wiped her forehead, and soothed her.
▪ He wiped his forehead with his handkerchief before placing it back on his neck.
▪ I leaned across his wife and wiped his forehead with my handkerchief.
▪ At one end of the lawn, the gardener wiped his forehead, turned the mower around and began a new row.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
peck sb on the cheek/forehead etc
▪ He pecked her on the cheek.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Estes' forehead brushed the live wire.
▪ He pushed the pad aside, took a sip of orange juice, wiped his forehead, and went on typing.
▪ His black hair was tousled, blown by the wind, shining strands of it across his brown forehead.
▪ I kissed her forehead and her cheeks, her hair and her throat.
▪ I pulled it off gently, so as not to wake him, moistened a handkerchief with cologne and wiped his forehead.
▪ Joe stood at five feet, nine inches, and his hair was receding markedly from his forehead.
▪ Their faces are split by blue scars down the forehead and nose.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forehead

Forehead \Fore"head\ (?; 277), n.

  1. The front of that part of the head which incloses the brain; that part of the face above the eyes; the brow.

  2. The aspect or countenance; assurance.

    To look with forehead bold and big enough Upon the power and puissance of the king.
    --Shak.

  3. The front or fore part of anything.

    Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.
    --Milton.

    So rich advantage of a promised glory As smiles upon the forehead of this action.
    --Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
forehead

Middle English forhed, from Old English forheafod "forehead, brow," from fore- + heafod (see head (n.)). Similar formation in Dutch voorhoofd, German Vorhaupt, Danish forhoved.

Wiktionary
forehead

n. The part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline.

WordNet
forehead
  1. n. the part of the face above the eyes [syn: brow]

  2. the large cranial bone forming the front part of the cranium: the forehead and the upper part of the orbits [syn: frontal bone, os frontale]

Wikipedia
Forehead

In human anatomy, the forehead is an area of the head bounded by three features, two of the skull and one of the scalp. The top of the forehead is marked by the hairline, the edge of the area where hair on the scalp grows. The bottom of the forehead is marked by the supraorbital ridge, the bone feature of the skull above the eyes. The two sides of the forehead are marked by the temporal ridge, a bone feature that links the supraorbital ridge to the coronal suture line and beyond.

In Terminologia Anatomica, sinciput is given as the Latin equivalent to "forehead". (Etymology of sinciput: from semi- "half" + caput "head".)

Usage examples of "forehead".

An Aberdonian, he resembled one of the black Aberdeen Angus cattle from his native territory: black curls tumbling over a broad forehead, liquid dark eyes always on the lookout for the red rag, wide cheekbones seeming to drag his fleshy nose across his face, full lips always moist.

His hat had come off and gone spinning away down the afterbay wall, and his pompadour was broken into wet strands plastered across his forehead.

As Jessamy removed the dried floral wreaths from both bowed heads, the girls with the veils performed their offices, bidding Alyce and Marie to hold the front edges of the veils in place while rainbow-plaited fillets were bound across their foreheads, entirely suitable for the lives they were to lead for the next few years.

The three men looked at it, appraisingly, and all saw it at the same instant: in the middle of the forehead, the eyeless head showed an indentation.

The watcher who had sat so quietly for three days, watching Aquarius Station, knelt in front of him, bowed over so her forehead touched the mat-covered floor.

As she saw the last time, the lines seemed especially predominant near his chin, cheeks, nose, and forehead areas, running mostly vertical on his forehead, diagonally and horizontally on his nose, vertically and diagonally on his chin and cheekbones, with a strange sort of oval or circular pattern around his eyes.

Miss Avellanos, born in Europe and educated partly in England, was a tall, grave girl, with a self-possessed manner, a wide, white forehead, a wealth of rich brown hair, and blue eyes.

Zack, tapping his forehead with an air of bland Bacchanalian superiority.

Ryder touched the bandana at his forehead then let his hand fall away.

She swept her hair back and then let her bangs fall naturally forward over her high forehead.

The air buzzed with excited comment, but when Brooks glanced at Beaumont he saw he was staring ahead of him as before, his forehead shining damply in the glare.

A half-hour from the time he set his foot in Beni Hassan two dancinggirls issued from the house of the ghdzeeyeh, dressed in shintiydn and muslin tarah, anklets and bracelets, with gold coins about the forehead --and one was Dicky Donovan.

They were a slightly built people, with pinched faces under swollen, bicephalic foreheads, and leathery skin mottled with brown and black patches.

There were people who might want to snipe at Biggy while he crushed beer cans on his forehead and watched Tuesday Night Fights.

Some of the xenos have been openly disappointed, because I think they believed the tri-dee movies that say all sentient alien life is going to be bilaterally symmetrical humanoids with lobsters on their foreheads.