Overbrow
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The area immediately above the eyebrow and below the forehead.
"If the man thall have a Mole on the overbrow, then let fuch a perfon refrayne from marriage altogether , or all his life time; for that such a person (if he marry) shall have five wives in his lifetime."
- 2 A projecting shelf of rock on the face of a cliff.
"For reasons of safety it was decided to drill off the overbrow and to blast it at one time to break 30,000 tons."
- 1 To hang over like a brow; to impend over. poetic, transitive
"The prints of the Matlock cliffs on the Derwent, which every body has seen, will give the stranger some idea of the rocks which overbrow the partially wooded ravines, and glens down which the streams tributary to the Dove descend."
Example
More examples"The prints of the Matlock cliffs on the Derwent, which every body has seen, will give the stranger some idea of the rocks which overbrow the partially wooded ravines, and glens down which the streams tributary to the Dove descend."
Etymology
From over- + brow.
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