different between barnett vs brow

English

Etymology

From Middle English browe, from Old English br?, from Proto-Germanic *br?w?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?b?rúHs (“brow”) (compare Middle Irish brúad, Tocharian B pärw?ne (“eyebrows”), Lithuanian bruvìs, Serbo-Croatian obrva, Russian ????? (brov?), Ancient Greek ????? (ophrús), Sanskrit ???? (bhr?)), Persian ????? (abr?, “eyebrow”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /b?a?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

brow (plural brows)

1. The ridge over the eyes; the eyebrow.
   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act III Scene v^[1]:

     '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 (satirist)\Charles Churchill, The Ghost

     And his arch'd brow, pulled o'er his eyes, / With solemn proof proclaims him wise.

2. The first tine of an antler's beam.
3. The forehead.
   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, Act II Scene iii^[2]:

     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, […]
4. The projecting upper edge of a steep place such as a hill.

   the brow of a precipice

5. (mining) A gallery in a coal mine running across the face of the coal.
6. (figuratively) Aspect; appearance.
7. (nautical) The gangway from ship to shore when a ship is lying alongside a quay.
8. (nautical) The hinged part of a landing craft or ferry which is lowered to form a landing platform; a ramp.

Synonyms

• forehead

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

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, John Milton, Comus

     Tending my flocks hard by i' the hilly crofts / That brow this bottom glade.

Middle English

Noun

brow

1. Alternative form of browe

Norn

Etymology

From Old Norse brauð, from Proto-Germanic *braud?. Compare Shetlandic brau.

Noun

brow

1. (Orkney) bread

Plautdietsch

Adjective

brow

1. brave, audacious, daring, courageous, dauntless, intrepid