brow
see also: Brow
Etymology
Brow
Etymology
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see also: Brow
Etymology
From Middle English browe, from Old English brū, from Proto-West Germanic *brāwu, from Proto-Germanic *brūwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃bʰrúHs.
Compare Middle Irish brúad, Tocharian B pärwāne, Lithuanian bruvìs, Serbo-Croatian obrva, Russian бровь, Ancient Greek ὀφρύς, Sanskrit भ्रू), Persian ابرو, Khowar بروُ.
Pronunciation Nounbrow (plural brows)
- The ridge over the eyes; the eyebrow.
- c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act III, scene v]:
- ’Tis not your inky brows, your black silk hair, / Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream / That can entame my spirits to your worship.
- c. 1763, Charles Churchill, The Ghost:
- And his arch’d brow, pulled o’er his eyes, / With solemn proof proclaims him wise.
- The first tine of an antler's beam.
- The forehead.
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act II, scene iii]:
- Thy spirit within thee hath been so at war,
And thus hath so bestirr’d thee in thy sleep,
That beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow
Like bubbles in a late-disturb’d stream, […]
- The projecting upper edge of a steep place such as a hill.
- the brow of a precipice
- (mining) A gallery in a coal mine running across the face of the coal.
- (figurative) Aspect; appearance.
- (nautical) The gangway from ship to shore when a ship is lying alongside a quay.
- (nautical) The hinged part of a landing craft or ferry which is lowered to form a landing platform; a ramp.
- French: andouiller d'œil, maître andouiller, andouiller de massacre
- Italian: passerella da sbarco
- Russian: трап
- Italian: passerella da sbarco
brow (brows, present participle browing; simple past and past participle browed)
- To bound or limit; to be at, or form, the edge of.
- 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC ↗; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC ↗, page 19 ↗, lines 531–532:
- Tending my flocks hard by i' the hilly crofts / That brow this bottom glade.
Brow
Etymology
- As an English surname, from the noun brow.
- As a French - surname, variant of Brault and also Breaux. Compare Bro, Broe.
- As a Dutch - surname, Americanized from Brouw, either from the verb brouwen or a variant of op den Brouw, a toponym of uncertain origin (possibly itself related to brouwen).
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