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EYEBROW
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The arch of hair above each eye
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("eyebrow" is a kind of...):
hair (a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss)
Meronyms (parts of "eyebrow"):
venae palpebrales (veins of the eyelids)
Holonyms ("eyebrow" is a part of...):
face; human face (the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear)
Context examples:
Perhaps not with your tongue, my dear Watson, but certainly with your eyebrows.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is being studied as a way to increase the growth of eyelashes and eyebrows in patients given chemotherapy for cancer.
(Bimatoprost, NCI Dictionary)
Mr. Eshton, the magistrate of the district, is gentleman-like: his hair is quite white, his eyebrows and whiskers still dark, which gives him something of the appearance of a "pere noble de theatre."
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He has a half-smile, and a way of raising his eyebrows, for which he will be shot one of these mornings.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Beneath its shade there sat a stout and elderly lady in a pink cote-hardie, leaning back among a pile of cushions, and plucking out her eyebrows with a small pair of silver tweezers.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
An acute bacterial infectious process that affects the tissues surrounding the eye, including the eyelids, the eyebrow, and the cheek tissues.
(Orbital Cellulitis, NCI Thesaurus)
The bony elevation located beneath the eyebrow.
(Orbital Ridge, NCI Thesaurus)
His eyebrows were very black, and moved readily, and this gave him a look of some temper, not bad, you would say, but quick and high.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen is a small dog with an unkempt, wiry double coat with shaggy eyebrows, beard and mustache.
(Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen, NCI Thesaurus)
The Professor only raised his great eyebrows, as the schoolmaster meets the irrelevant observation of the naughty boy.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
