different between tress vs forelock

English

Etymology

From Middle English tresse, from Old French tresce, of uncertain origin; possibly from Vulgar Latin *trichia, from Ancient Greek ?????? (trikhía, “rope”), from ???? (thríx, “hair”). Compare French tresse, Italian treccia.

Pronunciation

• enPR: tr?s, IPA^(key): /t??s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Noun

tress (plural tresses)

1. A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.
2. A long lock of hair
3. (by extension) A knot or festoon, as of flowers.

Derived terms

• mermaid's tresses
• tressful
• tressy

Translations

Verb

tress (third-person singular simple present tresses, present participle tressing, simple past and past participle tressed)

1. To braid or knot hair.

Anagrams

• RTSes, SERTs, TRSes, rests

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English *forelock, *forelok, from Old English forelocc, equivalent to fore- +? lock.

Noun

forelock (plural forelocks)

1. The part of a person's hairstyle which covers the forehead.
   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IV, lines 300-303, [1]

     His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks / Round from his parted forelock manly hung / Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad:

   • 1734, The Koran: Commonly Called the Alkoran of Mohammed, translated by George Sale, Sura 96, Congealed Blood, [2]

     Doth he not know that GOD seeth? / Assuredly. Verily, if he forbear not, we will drag him by the forelock, / the lying, sinful forelock. / And let him call his council to assistance: / we also will call the infernal guards to cast him into hell.

   • 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XXXVIII, [3]

     Warm with the blood of lads I know / Comes east the sighing air. / / It fanned their temples, filled their lungs, / Scattered their forelocks free;

   • 1978, Edmund White, Nocturnes for the King of Naples, New York: St. Martin's Press, Chapter VIII, p. 135,

     This little boy, still flicking his head to one side between sentences though the long blond forelock that once excused the tic had been cut […]

2. The part of a horse's (or similar animal's) mane that lies on its forehead.
   • 1898, Ivan Turgenev, in A Lear of the Steppes and Other Stories, translated by Constance Garnett, New York: Macmillan: 1898, p. 146, [4]

     […] the gates themselves slowly parted, there appeared a large horse's head, with a plaited forelock under a decorated yoke, and slowly there rolled into the road a small cart, like those driven by horse-dealers, and higglers.

Synonyms

• (part of hairstyle): bangs (US), fringe (UK)
• (part of horse's mane): foretop

Derived terms

• forelocked
• forelocking
• take time by the forelock
• tug one's forelock

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English forelok, equivalent to fore- +? lock.

Noun

forelock (plural forelocks)

1. A wedge pushed through a hole at the end of a bolt to hold it in place.

Verb

forelock (third-person singular simple present forelocks, present participle forelocking, simple past and past participle forelocked)

1. To fix in place with a forelock (wedge)