Definition of Brow

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Definition of Brow

Brow

The prominent ridge over the eye, with the hair that covers it, forming an arch above the orbit.

The hair that covers the brow (ridge over the eyes); the eyebrow.

The forehead; as, a feverish brow.

The general air of the countenance.

The edge or projecting upper part of a steep place; as, the brow of a precipice; the brow of a hill.

To bound to limit; to be at, or form, the edge of.

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Brow Quotations

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
Lord Byron

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
Victor Hugo

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
Ovid

Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.
Herman Melville

I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.
Ethel Waters

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.
Joseph Addison

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
Lord Chesterfield

In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.
Daniel Boone

They may be a little more high brow than we are.
David Talbot

Brow Translations

brow in Afrikaans is wenkbrou
brow in Dutch is wenkbrauw
brow in French is sourcil
brow in German is Stirn {m}, Augenbraue {f}, Braue
brow in Latin is frons
brow in Portuguese is sobrancelha, testa
brow in Spanish is ceja

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