Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word BROW

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Definitions of BROW

1. The ridge over the eyes; the eyebrow.
2. The first tine of an antler's beam.
3. The forehead.
4. The projecting upper edge of a steep place such as a hill.
5. To bound or limit; to be at, or form, the edge of.
6. (mining) A gallery in a coal mine running across the face of the coal.
7. (figurative) Aspect; appearance.
8. (nautical) The gangway from ship to shore when a ship is lying alongside a quay.
9. (nautical) The hinged part of a landing craft or ferry which is lowered to form a landing platform; a ramp.
10. A surname.

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Examples of Using BROW in a Sentence

• He is a great seafarer who, on his brow, carried the Morning Star, a jewel called a Silmaril, across the sky.
• A furry suit was made to fit him, and his hair was shaped to a tiny point that further accented his sloping brow.
• It has come to be recognised as a seminal case on the notion of originality in copyright law and has been upheld as an early example of the sweat of the brow doctrine.
• In Hinduism, the third eye refers to the ajna (or brow) chakra, said to be located around the middle of the forehead, slightly above the junction of the eyebrows.
• FFS can include various bony and soft tissue procedures such as brow lift, rhinoplasty, cheek implantation, and lip augmentation.
• The nasal part is between the brow ridges, and ends in a serrated nasal notch that articulates with the nasal bones inferiorly, and with the lacrimal and maxilla bones laterally.
• Because he was born on the same year as the Great Fire of Meireki and because he was hot tempered and his brow would crease looking like 火 or "fire", he was affectionately called Hi no Ko (火の子) or child of fire.
• All adown her back floated tresses of ruddy gold, with a slender jeweled circlet confining them at the brow.
• In fact Newlyn comprises three discrete hamlets all previously separated by bodies of water, being Tolcarne (Tal Carn: Brow of the Rocks), Street-an-owan (Street-an-Owan: Oxen Street) and Trewarveneth (Farm/Manor on the Hill).
• The white-browed woodswallow has very distinctive plumage consisting of white brow over a black head with the upper body being a deep blue-grey and with a chestnut under body.
• It has a robust bill, slight brow ridge, and very heavy feet with bare tarsi having scutellate scale pattern.
• A unibrow (or jacco brow or monobrow; called synophrys in medicine) is a single eyebrow created when the two eyebrows meet in the middle above the bridge of the nose.
• The site of the former RAF station was demolished in the mid-to-late 1970s, and has since been largely covered by a housing estate, bordered by Bennett's Rec and the railway line to the south, Fearnhead to the north-east, and Blackbrook and Cinnamon Brow to the north.
• They are generally black or dark grey, but have a white throat, crescent-shaped browband, ruff and beard; the browband gave the species its common name, since it was held to resemble the crescent on the brow of the goddess Diana.
• A well-meaning Cambion (or half-Demon) whose true name is Anung Un Rama ("and upon his brow is set a crown of flame"), Hellboy was summoned from Hell to Earth as a baby by Nazi occultists (spawning his hatred for the Third Reich).
• Historian and critic Lord Macaulay described the character as "a man proud, moody, cynical, with defiance on his brow, and misery in his heart, a scorner of his kind, implacable in revenge, yet capable of deep and strong affection".
• He was described as having a long, narrow head with both a bulging brow and a protuberant occipital lobe, capped by a high crown.
• The music of this number recurs in modified form during the ensuing tableau (Act III, Tableau 2), at the points when the Bumblebee appears during the scene: it stings the two evil sisters on the brow, blinds Babarikha (the instigator of the plot to trick Saltan at the beginning into sending his wife away), and in general causes havoc at the end of the tableau.
• Western European red deer antlers feature "bez" (second) tines that are either absent or smaller than the brow tines.
• There, his maternal grandmother tells the merchants about a beautiful princess that outshine both the sun in the morning and the moon at night, with crescent moons in her braids and a star on her brow.
• Prior to this, Hardie had kneed Brown in the face and proceed to stamp on the open wound on Brown's brow after the initial attack went unnoticed by the referee.
• And Williams's lyrics, while never startling, become increasingly personal as her professional confidence grows--she's wrinkling her brow more and her nose less.
• The torse is also often used as a decoration on a heraldic animal, either across the brow, as a form of circlet, or around the neck.
• Westhoughton incorporates several former villages and hamlets which have their own distinctive character, sports traditions and amenities, including Wingates, White Horse, Over Hulton, Four Gates, Chequerbent, Hunger Hill, Snydale, Hart Common, Marsh Brook, Daisy Hill and Dobb Brow.
• A look of troubled disappointment flitted across the captain's brow, but vanished when he stepped to the head of the gangway and, looking, over saw, not the launch, but a twelve-oared cutter manned entirely by officers of the Olympia.

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