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ˈeye-bree
[f. eye n.1 + bree n.1]
†a. = eye-lid. Obs.
b. = eye-lash. Obs.
c. = eye-brow. Obs. exc. Sc. and dial.
a.c1000Sax. Leechd. I. 352 Niwe ᵹate cyse oferᵹeseted mid þa eaᵹbræwas. c1300Song agst. Retinues in Pol. Songs (Camden) 239 Sene is on is browe Ant on is eȝe⁓brewe, That [etc.]. 1562Turner Herbal ii. 137 b, The juice of it [mustarde]..is good..for the roughnes of the ey⁓brees. 1604T. Wright Passions i. vii. 29 The fornication of a woman shall be knowen by the lifting vp of her eyes, and in her eye-bries. 1617Markham Caval. v. 17 All those long and stiffe haires which growe close aboue his vpper eye-brees. 1787in Grose Provinc. Gloss., Suppl.
b.1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. (1586) 117 A horse when he beginnes to be olde, his temples waxe hollowe, his eye bries gray. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 67 Into the same hue do they dy their eie-breis, and eye-browes.
c.1776D. Herd Scot. Songs I. 210 And the sweat it dropt down Frae my very eye-brie. a1803Jamieson Water-Kelpie 43 (in Scott Minstr.), Of filthy gar his ee-brees war. 1862Dialect of Leeds 257 ‘Ee-brees’, eyebrows. Mod. Sc. He is dirt up to the very ee-brees. |