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発音

• IPA: /bɹaʊ/
• 韻: -aʊ

名詞

brow (plural brows)

1. The bony ridge over the eyes, upon which the eyebrows are located.
2. 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.

3. 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, […]

   • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 5, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎:

     Mr. Banks’ panama hat was in one hand, while the other drew a handkerchief across his perspiring brow.

4. (figurative) Aspect; appearance; facial expression.
   • 1919, Katherine Mansfield, “Friendship”, in J. Middleton Murry, editor, The Scrapbook of Katherine Mansfield, published 1940:

     Take it away; I'm frightened! / But she, with placid brow, / Cries: "This is our Kitty-witty! / Why don't you love her now?"

5. The projecting upper edge of a steep place such as a hill.

   the brow of a precipice

6. The first tine of an antler's beam.
7. (mining) A gallery in a coal mine running across the face of the coal.
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.

同意語

• forehead

派生語

動詞

brow (third-person singular simple present brows, present participle browing, simple past and past participle browed)

1. 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.