| 单词 | to knit, bend one's brows |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto knit, bend one's brows a. ‘The arch of hair over the eye’ (Johnson). Usually plural. In later use including the super-orbital ridge, and especially the skin, on which the hair grows. Now usually eyebrow n. to knit, bend one's brows: to frown. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > eyebrow > [noun] overbrowOE breec1275 bryn1330 bent browc1380 superciliuma1398 brow1398 eyebrowa1450 winbrow?1473 beetle1532 eye-bree1543 bow1729 arch-brow1741 bush1859 the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > expression of ill humour > express ill humour [verb (intransitive)] > frown or scowl lourc1290 scowl1340 frownc1386 glouta1400 gloomc1400 gluma1500 lump1577 to knit, bend one's brows1600 caperate1623 glower1775 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > forehead > [verb (intransitive)] > contract or relax frownc1386 frounce1532 to knit, bend one's brows1600 gather1816 knit1816 furrow1937 c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 156 Supercilia, oferbrua. c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 290 Intercilium [cf. Gk. μεσόϕρυον] betweoh bruwum.] 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. ix. 114 The browes ben callyd supercilia the ouer lyddes for they ben sette aboue the eye lyddes..The browes ben closyd with moche heere. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8079 Lang and side þair brues wern, And hinged all a-bout þair hern. c1400 Ywaine & Gaw. 261 His browes was like litel buskes. 1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle v. ii. sig. Eiv I am as true..as skin bet wene thy browes. 1600 W. Cornwallis Ess. I. xx. sig. L8v We will pull our browes, and indure any paine to imitate the fashion. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) i. ii. 3 Why doth the Great Duke Humfrey knit his browes ? View more context for this quotation 1619 R. West Schoole of Vertue: 2nd Pt. sig. A8v Let not thy browes be backward drawn, it is a signe of pride, Exalt them not, it shewes a hart most arrogant beside. 1717 A. Pope Leaving Town in Wks. 375 Vex'd to be still in town, I knit my brow. 1830 Ld. Tennyson Madeline iii O'er black brows drops down A sudden-curved frown. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Œnone (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 122 The charm of married brows. < as lemmas |
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