foreheadn.

Brit.

/ˈfɒrᵻd/,

/ˈfɔːhɛd/, U.S.

/ˈfɔrˌ(h)ɛd/,

/ˈfɔrəd/,

/ˈfɑrəd/

Forms: see head n.¹

Etymology: Old English forhéafod , < for- prefix², fore- prefix + héafod head n.¹

a. That part of the face which reaches upward from the eyebrows to the natural line of the hair. Also, the corresponding part in beasts, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [noun] > forehead

foreheadc1000

frontlet1659

front1826

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > forehead > [noun]

foreheadc1000

frontc1290

brow1535

frontier1583

frontispiecea1625

forestam1790

c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 156 Caluarium, for~heafod.

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 127 Ure forheafod.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 19 Makeð an cros from þe foreheaued to þe beoste.

c1305 Edmund Conf. 65–6 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 72 In mie foreheuede iwrite mi name þu schalt iseo. Signe þerwiþ þi forheued.

c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 3925 Hys hors..bar a sterre on his for-hed.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) i. 48 He frompeled his forhede.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xiii. iii. 128 Thy plesand forret schaply and ene cleir.

1582 T. Watson Passionate Cent. of Loue Ep. Ded., in Poems (1870) 26 Malicious high foreheads.

1639 J. Woodall Treat. Plague in Surgeons Mate (rev. ed.) 363 Applyed cold to the fore-head or place grieved.

1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. vi. §8 The placing of the motto..upon the High Priests fore~head.

1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture III. 34/2 From the Forhead to the Hinder-part of the head.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Locksley Hall in Poems (new ed.) II. 94 On her pallid cheek and forehead came a colour and a light.

1886 A. Winchell Walks & Talks in Geol. Field 256 The dinoceras..had..perhaps three pairs of horns, one on the snout, one on the cheeks, and one on the forehead.

b. transferred and figurative.

ΚΠ

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iii. 63 Euen to the teeth and forhead of our faults.

?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xvi. 692 Two fierce kings of beasts, oppos'd in strife about a hind Slain on the forehead of a hill.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. i. 51 The forhead of the morning.

1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 7 Tis manifest his purpose was only to rub the forehead of his title with this word modest.

1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women I. iv. 149 Those writings..carry on their very forehead the mark of the beast.

1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion vii. 337 And oak..on whose forehead inaccessible The raven lodged in safety.

1839 H. W. Longfellow Hyperion I. i. vi. 51 High and hoar on the forehead of the Jettenbühl stands the Castle of Heidelberg.

c. Phrase. †to take time (or occasion) by the forehead: now usually by the forelock (see forelock n.² 2).

ΚΠ

1591 R. Greene Farewell to Folly sig. I Take time now by the forehead, she is bald behind.

1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love iv. v. sig. I3^v Gallants, thinke vpon your Time, and take it by the forehead.

1633 T. Heywood Eng. Trav. iii, in Wks. (1874) IV. 47 Take Occasion by the forehead.

†2. Used (like Latin frons) for the countenance as capable of expressing shame, etc. In two opposite applications:

a. Capacity of blushing; sense of shame or decency; modesty.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > humility > feeling of shame > [noun] > sense of shame or decency

shamec725

shamefastnessc1200

shamefulnessa1340

shameness1340

pudicity1567

pudencya1616

pudor1623

forehead1631

sense of shame1647

pudeur1876

1631 J. Burges Answer Reioyned 236 No man can deny it, who hath any forehead left.

b. Command of countenance, unblushing front; assurance, impudence, audacity. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun]

hardiessec1300

boldness1377

malapertness?a1439

over-boldnessc1450

insolencya1513

protervitya1527

impudency1529

sauce malapert1529

petulancy1537

procacitya1538

audacity1545

sauceliness1552

forehead1564

hardihead1579

hardihood1594

outfacing1598

audaciousness1599

impudentness1599

petulancea1600

impertinency1609

impertinence1612

impudencea1616

procacya1620

affrontedness1640

brow1642

front1653

insolence1668

affrontery1679

assurance1699

effrontery1715

affrontiveness1721

swagger1725

imperence1765

cheek1823

sassiness1834

cheekiness1838

pawk1855

gall1882

chutzpah1886

face1890

mouth1891

crust1900

rind1901

smarting1902

hide1916

brass neck1937

1564 T. Becon New Catech. in Wks. 384 b With what forhead..dare we say in the Lord's prayer ‘Forgeue vs our trespasses’.

1675 Mistaken Husband ii. i. 21 With what Forehead Darest thou call me so?

1775 T. Sheridan Lect. Art of Reading I. iv. 371 No body but a modern freethinker could have the forehead or folly to turn it into ridicule.

3. The front part, forefront.

†a. gen. (Obsolete except with conscious metaphor: see 1b.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > front > [noun]

foremostc1275

headc1275

foreparty1398

forepartc1400

foresidec1400

devant1411

fronture1417

fore-endc1425

frontierc1430

forefront1488

forehead1525

frontc1540

vaunt1589

proscenium1648

frontside1697

van1726

fore-piece1788

façade1839

fore1888

1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. clvii. [cliii.] 429 She rode on the one syde by the quenes lytter, and it was assysted with the duke of Thourayne, and the duke of Burbone, at the fore heed on bothe sydes.

b. Mining, etc. The end, for the time being, of a level.

ΚΠ

1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Ijb Forebrest, Forfield, or Forehead.

1862 S. Smiles Lives Engineers III. 130 When I arrived at the forehead of the dip.

1885 Trans. Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archæol. Soc. 8 9 From the forehead of the level it was conveyed to the day by means of a wooden railroad.

c. Nautical. (See quot. a1642.)

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > yard > yards on mizzen-mast

mizzen yard1419

foreheada1642

jigger-yard1842

a1642 W. Monson Naval Tracts (1704) iii. 332/2 In the Forehead or Mizon-yard.

d. dialect. (See quots.)

ΚΠ

1798 Ann. Agric. 30 354 Foreheads or head~lands.

1810 Devon & Cornwall Voc. in Monthly Mag. June 436 Forehead about six feet space wide of earth round the hedges of a field, which is ploughed up, mixed with lime and carted or wheeled upon the field for manure.

†4. One holding the place of honour; a leader. [Not derived from sense 1; strictly a new formation.]

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > control > person in control > [noun] > leader

lattewc825

lodera1325

chieftainc1386

foreleadera1400

bellwetherc1430

aurigac1460

leader1489

Moses1528

ringleader1548

general1582

foreman1603

coryphaeus1633

foreheada1641

senator1656

father1771

o-muraji1869

simba1964

neta1984

a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1883) II. 380 To have rated the forehead of his hounds, then in chase after a wrong bucke.

1641 E. Dering Coll. Speeches on Relig. 20 Nov. (1642) xiv. 45 Pretending to be a fore-head of Divinity.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

forehead-band n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > head- or hair-band

snoodc725

norseleOE

hair-lacea1300

filleta1327

tressurea1350

hair-bandc1440

headbanda1522

forehead-cloth1561

fascia1587

filleting1648

forehead-band1809

taenia1850

bandlet1883

1809 A. Henry Trav. & Adventures Canada 24 A fillet, or forehead-band.

forehead-bone n.

ΚΠ

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xiii. 137 It was rather the forehead bone petrified, then a stone within the crany.

1793 T. Holcroft tr. J. C. Lavater Ess. Physiognomy (abridged ed.) vii. 44 The forehead bones remain unaltered.

forehead-wrinkle n.

ΚΠ

1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) Forehead wrinkles..rugæ frontis.

C2.

forehead-bald adj. bald as to the forehead.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > hair > hair of head > [adjective] > having no

calloweOE

baldc1386

as bald (bare, black) as a coot1430

forehead-bald1530

pilled-pated1542

bald-pate1578

bald-headed1580

bald-pated1606

bald-head1820

baldish1833

tonsured1855

pollard1856

thin on top1869

slap-headed1994

1530 Bible (Tyndale) Lev. xiii. f. xxii^v Then he is foreheadbalde.

forehead-cloth n. a cloth or bandage formerly worn on the forehead by ladies.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > head- or hair-band

snoodc725

norseleOE

hair-lacea1300

filleta1327

tressurea1350

hair-bandc1440

headbanda1522

forehead-cloth1561

fascia1587

filleting1648

forehead-band1809

taenia1850

bandlet1883

1561 Gifts to Queen in J. Nichols Progresses Queen Elizabeth (1823) I. 116 Three forehed-clothes of cameryk netted with gold.

1677 London Gaz. No 1245/4 Four laced Forehead Cloaths.

1757 Connoisseur (ed. 2) No. 80. 71 A store of clouts, caps, forehead-cloths.

† forehead-piece n. Obsolete (see quot.).

ΚΠ

1673 W. Wycherley Gentleman Dancing-master iv. i Every night since he came, I have worn the forehead-piece of bees' wax and hogs' grease.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	forehead
释义	foreheadn. Brit. /ˈfɒrᵻd/, /ˈfɔːhɛd/, U.S. /ˈfɔrˌ(h)ɛd/, /ˈfɔrəd/, /ˈfɑrəd/ Forms: see head n.¹ Etymology: Old English forhéafod , < for- prefix², fore- prefix + héafod head n.¹ 1. a. That part of the face which reaches upward from the eyebrows to the natural line of the hair. Also, the corresponding part in beasts, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [noun] > forehead foreheadc1000 frontlet1659 front1826 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > forehead > [noun] foreheadc1000 frontc1290 brow1535 frontier1583 frontispiecea1625 forestam1790 c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 156 Caluarium, for~heafod. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 127 Ure forheafod. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 19 Makeð an cros from þe foreheaued to þe beoste. c1305 Edmund Conf. 65–6 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 72 In mie foreheuede iwrite mi name þu schalt iseo. Signe þerwiþ þi forheued. c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 3925 Hys hors..bar a sterre on his for-hed. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) i. 48 He frompeled his forhede. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xiii. iii. 128 Thy plesand forret schaply and ene cleir. 1582 T. Watson Passionate Cent. of Loue Ep. Ded., in Poems (1870) 26 Malicious high foreheads. 1639 J. Woodall Treat. Plague in Surgeons Mate (rev. ed.) 363 Applyed cold to the fore-head or place grieved. 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. vi. §8 The placing of the motto..upon the High Priests fore~head. 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture III. 34/2 From the Forhead to the Hinder-part of the head. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Locksley Hall in Poems (new ed.) II. 94 On her pallid cheek and forehead came a colour and a light. 1886 A. Winchell Walks & Talks in Geol. Field 256 The dinoceras..had..perhaps three pairs of horns, one on the snout, one on the cheeks, and one on the forehead. b. transferred and figurative. ΚΠ 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iii. 63 Euen to the teeth and forhead of our faults. View more context for this quotation ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xvi. 692 Two fierce kings of beasts, oppos'd in strife about a hind Slain on the forehead of a hill. a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. i. 51 The forhead of the morning. View more context for this quotation 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 7 Tis manifest his purpose was only to rub the forehead of his title with this word modest. 1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women I. iv. 149 Those writings..carry on their very forehead the mark of the beast. 1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion vii. 337 And oak..on whose forehead inaccessible The raven lodged in safety. View more context for this quotation 1839 H. W. Longfellow Hyperion I. i. vi. 51 High and hoar on the forehead of the Jettenbühl stands the Castle of Heidelberg. c. Phrase. †to take time (or occasion) by the forehead: now usually by the forelock (see forelock n.² 2). ΚΠ 1591 R. Greene Farewell to Folly sig. I Take time now by the forehead, she is bald behind. 1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love iv. v. sig. I3^v Gallants, thinke vpon your Time, and take it by the forehead. 1633 T. Heywood Eng. Trav. iii, in Wks. (1874) IV. 47 Take Occasion by the forehead. †2. Used (like Latin frons) for the countenance as capable of expressing shame, etc. In two opposite applications: a. Capacity of blushing; sense of shame or decency; modesty. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > feeling of shame > [noun] > sense of shame or decency shamec725 shamefastnessc1200 shamefulnessa1340 shameness1340 pudicity1567 pudencya1616 pudor1623 forehead1631 sense of shame1647 pudeur1876 1631 J. Burges Answer Reioyned 236 No man can deny it, who hath any forehead left. b. Command of countenance, unblushing front; assurance, impudence, audacity. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun] hardiessec1300 boldness1377 malapertness?a1439 over-boldnessc1450 insolencya1513 protervitya1527 impudency1529 sauce malapert1529 petulancy1537 procacitya1538 audacity1545 sauceliness1552 forehead1564 hardihead1579 hardihood1594 outfacing1598 audaciousness1599 impudentness1599 petulancea1600 impertinency1609 impertinence1612 impudencea1616 procacya1620 affrontedness1640 brow1642 front1653 insolence1668 affrontery1679 assurance1699 effrontery1715 affrontiveness1721 swagger1725 imperence1765 cheek1823 sassiness1834 cheekiness1838 pawk1855 gall1882 chutzpah1886 face1890 mouth1891 crust1900 rind1901 smarting1902 hide1916 brass neck1937 1564 T. Becon New Catech. in Wks. 384 b With what forhead..dare we say in the Lord's prayer ‘Forgeue vs our trespasses’. 1675 Mistaken Husband ii. i. 21 With what Forehead Darest thou call me so? 1775 T. Sheridan Lect. Art of Reading I. iv. 371 No body but a modern freethinker could have the forehead or folly to turn it into ridicule. 3. The front part, forefront. †a. gen. (Obsolete except with conscious metaphor: see 1b.) ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > front > [noun] foremostc1275 headc1275 foreparty1398 forepartc1400 foresidec1400 devant1411 fronture1417 fore-endc1425 frontierc1430 forefront1488 forehead1525 frontc1540 vaunt1589 proscenium1648 frontside1697 van1726 fore-piece1788 façade1839 fore1888 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. clvii. [cliii.] 429 She rode on the one syde by the quenes lytter, and it was assysted with the duke of Thourayne, and the duke of Burbone, at the fore heed on bothe sydes. b. Mining, etc. The end, for the time being, of a level. ΚΠ 1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Ijb Forebrest, Forfield, or Forehead. 1862 S. Smiles Lives Engineers III. 130 When I arrived at the forehead of the dip. 1885 Trans. Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archæol. Soc. 8 9 From the forehead of the level it was conveyed to the day by means of a wooden railroad. c. Nautical. (See quot. a1642.) ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > yard > yards on mizzen-mast mizzen yard1419 foreheada1642 jigger-yard1842 a1642 W. Monson Naval Tracts (1704) iii. 332/2 In the Forehead or Mizon-yard. d. dialect. (See quots.) ΚΠ 1798 Ann. Agric. 30 354 Foreheads or head~lands. 1810 Devon & Cornwall Voc. in Monthly Mag. June 436 Forehead about six feet space wide of earth round the hedges of a field, which is ploughed up, mixed with lime and carted or wheeled upon the field for manure. †4. One holding the place of honour; a leader. [Not derived from sense 1; strictly a new formation.] ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > person in control > [noun] > leader lattewc825 lodera1325 chieftainc1386 foreleadera1400 bellwetherc1430 aurigac1460 leader1489 Moses1528 ringleader1548 general1582 foreman1603 coryphaeus1633 foreheada1641 senator1656 father1771 o-muraji1869 simba1964 neta1984 a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1883) II. 380 To have rated the forehead of his hounds, then in chase after a wrong bucke. 1641 E. Dering Coll. Speeches on Relig. 20 Nov. (1642) xiv. 45 Pretending to be a fore-head of Divinity. Compounds C1. General attributive. forehead-band n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > head- or hair-band snoodc725 norseleOE hair-lacea1300 filleta1327 tressurea1350 hair-bandc1440 headbanda1522 forehead-cloth1561 fascia1587 filleting1648 forehead-band1809 taenia1850 bandlet1883 1809 A. Henry Trav. & Adventures Canada 24 A fillet, or forehead-band. forehead-bone n. ΚΠ 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xiii. 137 It was rather the forehead bone petrified, then a stone within the crany. View more context for this quotation 1793 T. Holcroft tr. J. C. Lavater Ess. Physiognomy (abridged ed.) vii. 44 The forehead bones remain unaltered. forehead-wrinkle n. ΚΠ 1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) Forehead wrinkles..rugæ frontis. C2. forehead-bald adj. bald as to the forehead. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > hair of head > [adjective] > having no calloweOE baldc1386 as bald (bare, black) as a coot1430 forehead-bald1530 pilled-pated1542 bald-pate1578 bald-headed1580 bald-pated1606 bald-head1820 baldish1833 tonsured1855 pollard1856 thin on top1869 slap-headed1994 1530 Bible (Tyndale) Lev. xiii. f. xxii^v Then he is foreheadbalde. forehead-cloth n. a cloth or bandage formerly worn on the forehead by ladies. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > head- or hair-band snoodc725 norseleOE hair-lacea1300 filleta1327 tressurea1350 hair-bandc1440 headbanda1522 forehead-cloth1561 fascia1587 filleting1648 forehead-band1809 taenia1850 bandlet1883 1561 Gifts to Queen in J. Nichols Progresses Queen Elizabeth (1823) I. 116 Three forehed-clothes of cameryk netted with gold. 1677 London Gaz. No 1245/4 Four laced Forehead Cloaths. 1757 Connoisseur (ed. 2) No. 80. 71 A store of clouts, caps, forehead-cloths. † forehead-piece n. Obsolete (see quot.). ΚΠ 1673 W. Wycherley Gentleman Dancing-master iv. i Every night since he came, I have worn the forehead-piece of bees' wax and hogs' grease. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1000
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