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"word": "beetle brow"
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"word": "beetle-browed"
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"word": "Berry Brow"
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"word": "bibrow"
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"word": "brow-antlered deer"
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"word": "browband"
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"word": "browbeat"
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"word": "browbone"
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"word": "browbound"
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"word": "browful"
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"word": "browlift"
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"word": "browline"
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"word": "browman"
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"word": "browplasty"
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"word": "brow ridge"
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"word": "browspot"
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"word": "Dobb Brow"
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"word": "eye brow"
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"word": "highbrow"
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"word": "low-brow"
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"word": "lowbrow"
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"word": "medium-brow"
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"word": "midbrow"
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"word": "middlebrow"
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"word": "monobrow"
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"word": "no-brow"
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"word": "overbrow"
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"word": "Scouse brow"
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"word": "sweat of one's brow"
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"word": "sweat of the brow"
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"word": "underbrow"
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"word": "unibrow"
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"word": "Weatherby brow"
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"expansion": "Middle English browe",
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"expansion": "Middle Irish brúad",
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"t": "eyebrows"
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"expansion": "Tocharian B pärwāne (“eyebrows”)",
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"2": "bruvìs"
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"2": "obrva"
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"expansion": "Serbo-Croatian obrva",
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"2": "бровь"
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"expansion": "Russian бровь (brovʹ)",
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{
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"2": "ὀφρύς"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek ὀφρύς (ophrús)",
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"args": {
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"expansion": "Sanskrit भ्रू (bhrū)",
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"expansion": "Persian ابرو (abru, “eyebrow”)",
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"ref": "c. 1763, Charles Churchill, The Ghost",
"text": "And his arch'd brow, pulled o'er his eyes, / With solemn proof proclaims him wise.",
"type": "quotation"
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"The ridge over the eyes; the eyebrow."
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"The first tine of an antler's beam."
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"sense": "brow-level browsing",
"word": "browsing room"
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"ref": "1913, Robert Barr, chapter 5, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad",
"text": "Mr. Banks’ panama hat was in one hand, while the other drew a handkerchief across his perspiring brow.",
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"The forehead."
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"text": "the brow of a precipice",
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"The projecting upper edge of a steep place such as a hill."
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"upper",
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"edge",
"edge"
],
[
"steep",
"steep"
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[
"place",
"place"
],
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"hill",
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"roman": "nadvisnala skala",
"sense": "the projecting upper edge of a steep place such as a hill",
"word": "надвиснала скала"
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"sense": "the projecting upper edge of a steep place such as a hill",
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"sense": "the projecting upper edge of a steep place such as a hill",
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"sense": "the projecting upper edge of a steep place such as a hill",
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"sense": "the projecting upper edge of a steep place such as a hill",
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"sense": "the projecting upper edge of a steep place such as a hill",
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"sense": "the projecting upper edge of a steep place such as a hill",
"word": "supercilium"
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"word": "taumata"
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"word": "kāniuniu"
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"A gallery in a coal mine running across the face of the coal."
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"Aspect; appearance."
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[
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"(figurative) Aspect; appearance."
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"The gangway from ship to shore when a ship is lying alongside a quay."
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[
"nautical",
"nautical"
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[
"gangway",
"gangway"
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[
"ship",
"ship"
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[
"shore",
"shore"
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[
"lying",
"lie"
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[
"alongside",
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[
"quay",
"quay"
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"(nautical) The gangway from ship to shore when a ship is lying alongside a quay."
],
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"transport"
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"_dis1": "1 1 0 1 1 2 92 2",
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"sense": "the gangway from ship to shore when a ship is lying alongside a quay",
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"word": "сходня"
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"word": "passerella da sbarco"
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"word": "трап"
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"The hinged part of a landing craft or ferry which is lowered to form a landing platform; a ramp."
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"(nautical) The hinged part of a landing craft or ferry which is lowered to form a landing platform; a ramp."
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"word": "browplasty"
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"word": "brow ridge"
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"code": "fr",
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}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English browe, from Old English brū, from Proto-West Germanic *brāwu, from Proto-Germanic *brūwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃bʰrúHs (“brow”).\nCompare Middle Irish brúad, Tocharian B pärwāne (“eyebrows”), Lithuanian bruvìs, Serbo-Croatian obrva, Russian бровь (brovʹ), Ancient Greek ὀφρύς (ophrús), Sanskrit भ्रू (bhrū)), Persian ابرو (abru, “eyebrow”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "brows",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "browing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "browed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "browed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "brow (third-person singular simple present brows, present participle browing, simple past and past participle browed)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"To bound or limit; to be at, or form, the edge of."
],
"links": [
[
"bound",
"bound"
],
[
"limit",
"limit"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/bɹaʊ/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-aʊ"
},
{
"audio": "En-us-brow.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e6/En-us-brow.ogg/En-us-brow.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/En-us-brow.ogg"
}
],
"word": "brow"
}
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