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forehead
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Word definitions for forehead in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the part of the face above the eyes [syn: brow ] 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 ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Middle English forhed , from Old English forheafod "forehead, brow," from fore- + heafod (see head (n.)). Similar formation in Dutch voorhoofd , German Vorhaupt , Danish forhoved .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forehead \Fore"head\ (?; 277), n. The front of that part of the head which incloses the brain; that part of the face above the eyes; the brow. The aspect or countenance; assurance. To look with forehead bold and big enough Upon the power and puissance of ...
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.