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brow

see also: Brow

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brow (plural brows)

The ridge over the eyes; the eyebrow.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, 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.
- And his arched brow, pulled o'er his eyes, / With solemn proof proclaims him wise.
The first tine of an antler's beam.
The forehead.
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, 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.

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brow (brows, present participle browing; past and past participle browed)

To bound or limit; to be at, or form, the edge of.
- 1634, John Milton, Comus
  Tending my flocks hard by i' the hilly crofts / That brow this bottom glade.

Brow

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