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▪ I. eyebrow|ˈaɪbraʊ|
[f. eye n.1 + brow. Not in OE., which had only éaᵹbrǽw eye-bree.]
1. a. The fringe of hair along the upper orbit of the eye, more or less arched in appearance.
1585J. Higgins tr. Junius' Nomenclator 27 Supercilium, the ridge of haire aboue the eye lids or the eye browes. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. ii. vii. 149 The Louer, with a wofull ballad Made to his Mistresse eye-brow. 1691Ray Creation ii. (1692) 32 Above stand the Eye-Brows to keep any thing from running down upon the eyes. 1741Monro Anat. Nerves (ed. 3) 79 An arched Ridge is extended, on which the Eye-brows are placed. 1813Scott Trierm. iii. xxvi, Shade thine eyebrows with thine hand. 1860Froude Hist. Eng. VI. 276 He had the arched eyebrow..of the beautiful Plantagenet face.
b. pl. Artificial imitations of the same, app. made of mouse-skin.
1703Steele Tend. Husb. iii. i, Pr'y thee, wench, bring me my black eyebrows out of the next room. 1718Prior Another Reas. Affliction Poems 270 The Slattern had left in the Hurry..Her Lady's Complexion and Eyebrows at Calais. ― On the same Poems 271 If we don't catch a Mouse To-night, Alas! no Eye-brows for To-morrow.
c. to raise one's eyebrow(s) (or an eyebrow): to show surprise or dubiousness (at something).
1918L. Strachey Emin. Victorians 28 The most steady-going churchman hardly raises an eyebrow at it now. 1956G. H. Vallins Pattern of Eng. v. 132 Brown, though he raises his eyebrows a little at the usage, by no means condemns it outright. 1956A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Att. 407 They will perhaps raise their eyebrows at the old reiterated parrot-cry that the triumph of Roman Christianity brought ‘civilization’ to our island.
d. up to the (or one's) eyebrows, up to the eyes (see eye n.1 2 e).
1925Wodehouse Carry On, Jeeves! ii. 53 There was a fellow, one would have said, clear up to the eyebrows in the soup. To all appearances he had got it right in the neck. 1954N. Coward Future Indefinite ii. iii. 92 To many of my acquaintances..it was a foregone conclusion that I was involved in espionage up to the eyebrows. 1961B. Fergusson Watery Maze x. 252 The commanders concerned were up to their eyebrows in the Sicilian campaign. 1968A. Diment Gt. Spy Race iii. 36 He's..tanked up to the eyebrows with Acid.
2. Anat. (see quot. 1840).
1806Med. Jrnl. XV. 208 The organ of finding and recollecting places manifested itself strongly in the corners of his eye-brows. 1840G. Ellis Anat. 74 The eyebrows..are two curved prominences formed by the orbicularis and occipito-frontalis muscles.
3. Arch.
a. A moulding over a window.
b. (See quot. 1842).
1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser 5 Annulet..in Architecture..a..Tince, Eye-brow. 1832tr. Tour Germ. Prince IV. iv. 162 Hatfield is built of brick; only the eyebrows of the windows..&c. are of stone. 1842Gwilt Archit. Gloss. 971 Eyebrow, a name sometimes given to the fillet.
4. attrib. and Comb. eyebrow pencil (see pencil n. 2 c); eyebrow tweezers, tweezers for extracting unwanted hairs from the eyebrows.
1718Prior Another Reas. Affliction Poems 270 Her Eye⁓brow-Box one Morning lost.
1881[see blanc de perle]. 1936D. Powell Turn, Magic Wheel ii. 135 His wife's eyebrow pencil. 1938[see eye-lash c].
1760Goldsm. Cit. W. (1840) 9 Your nose-borers..eyebrow-pluckers, would all want bread.
1854Hooker Himal. Jrnls. I. iii. 66 Prominence of eyebrow region.
1933D. L. Sayers Hangman's Holiday 123 A pair of eyebrow tweezers. 1966P. V. Price France 113 Eyebrow tweezers (can be invaluable for far more first-aid operations than just plucking eyebrows).
Hence ˈeyebrowed a., furnished with eyebrows; transf. (of a hill), having a growth of trees resembling an eyebrow. ˈeyebrowless a., without eyebrows.
1833J. Hodgson in J. Raine Mem. (1858) II. 314 Steep scars, fringed and eye-browed with wild natural wood. 1859Jephson Brittany i. 2 Flock of white-eyebrowed goats. 1868Dickens Uncomm. Trav. xxv, Those four male personages..complexionless and eyebrowless. 1884Miss. Herald Sept. 375 They never yet had heard of such a thing as an eyebrowless child.
▸ eyebrow ring n. a small ornamental ring or bar worn through a pierced eyebrow.
1992San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 7 Aug. d3 He then provided his left *eyebrow ring with a partner. 2004Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 2 Apr. 7 He..pulled out her eyebrow ring, causing a cut which bled heavily.
▪ II. ˈeyebrow, v.
[f. prec. n.]
trans. a. To frown (a person) out of: in quot. with indirect pass. b. To provide with (distinct) eyebrows.
1837T. Hook Jack Brag xix, Rougeing, powdering..eye⁓browing, and all concomitant stage tricks. 1876Mrs. Whitney Sights & Ins. iii. 15, I find it is only the unusual things..that you are eyebrowed out of. |