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forehead|ˈfɒrɪd, ˈfɔəhɛd|
Forms: see head.
[OE. forhéafod, f. for-2, fore- prefix + héafod head.]
1. That part of the face which reaches upward from the eyebrows to the natural line of the hair. Also, the corresponding part in beasts, etc.
c1000ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 156 Caluarium, for⁓heafod. c1175Lamb. Hom. 127 Ure forheafod. a1225Ancr. R. 18 Makieð..a large creoiz mit þe þreo vingres vrom abuue þe vorheaued dun to þe breoste. c1305Edmund Conf. 65–6 in E.E.P. (1862) 72 In mie foreheuede iwrite mi name þu schalt iseo. Signe þerwiþ þi forheued. c1380Sir Ferumb. 3927 Hys hors..bar a sterre on his for-hed. c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon i. 48 He frompeled his forhede. 1513Douglas æneis xiii. iii. 128 Thy plesand forret schaply and ene cleir. 1582T. Watson Centurie of Love Ep. Ded. (Arb.) 26 Malicious high foreheads. 1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 363 Applyed cold to the forr-head, or place grieved. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. ii. vi. §8 The placing of the motto..upon the High Priests fore⁓head. 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. III. 34/2 From the Forhead to the Hinder-part of the head. 1842Tennyson Locksley Hall 25 On her pallid cheek and forehead came a colour and a light. 1886A. Winchell Walks & Talks Geol. Field 256 The dinoceras..had..perhaps three pairs of horns, one on the snout, one on the cheeks, and one on the forehead.
b. transf. and fig.
1602Shakes. Ham. iii. iii. 63 Euen to the teeth and fore⁓head of our faults. 1607― Cor. ii. i. 57 The forhead of the morning. c1611Chapman Iliad xvi. 692 Two fierce kings of beasts, oppos'd in strife about a hind Slain on the forehead of a hill. 1642Milton Apol. Smect. (1851) 258 Tis manifest his purpose was only to rub the forehead of his title with this word modest. 1766Fordyce Serm. Yng. Wom. (1767) I. iv. 149 Those writings carry on their very forehead the mark of the beast. 1795–1814Wordsw. Excursion vii. 593 And oak..on whose forehead inaccessible The raven lodged in safety. 1839Longfellow Hyperion i. vi. (1865) 30 High and hoar on the forehead of the Jettenbuhl stands the castle of Heidelberg.
c. Phrase. † to take time (or occasion) by the forehead: now usually by the forelock (see forelock n.2 2).
1592Greene Farew. Folly Wks. (Grosart) IX. 311 Take time now by the forehead, she is bald behind. 1599Ben. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. iv. i, Let us then take our time by the forehead. 1633Heywood Eng. Trav. iii. Wks. 1874 IV. 47 Take Occasion by the forehead.
†2. Used (like L. frons) for the countenance as capable of expressing shame, etc. In two opposite applications:
a. Capacity of blushing; sense of shame or decency; modesty.
b. Command of countenance, unblushing front; assurance, impudence, audacity. Obs.
1560Becon New Catech. iv. Wks. 1564 I. 384 b, With what forhead..dare we say in the Lord's prayer ‘Forgeue vs our trespasses’. 1631J. Burges Answ. Rejoined 236 No man can deny it, who hath any forehead left. 1675Mistaken Husband ii. i. in Dryden's Wks. (1884) VIII. 599 With what forehead Darest thou call me so? 1775T. Sheridan Art Reading 371 No body but a modern freethinker could have the forehead or folly to turn it into ridicule.
3. The front part, forefront.
†a. gen. (Obs. exc. with conscious metaphor: see 1 b.)
1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. clvii. [cliii.] 429 She rode on the one syde by the quenes lytter, and it was assysted with the duke of Thourayne, and the duke of Burbone, at the fore heed on bothe sydes.
b. Mining, etc. The end, for the time being, of a level.
1747Hooson Miner's Dict. Ij b, Forebrest, Forfield, or Forehead. 1862Smiles Engineers III. 130 When I arrived at the forehead of the dip. 1885Trans. Cumbld. & Westmld. Antiq. Soc. VIII. 9 From the forehead of the level it was conveyed to the day by means of a wooden railroad.
c. Naut. (See quot.)
a1642Sir W. Monson Naval Tracts iii. (1704) 332/2 In the Forehead or Mizon-yard.
d. dial. (See quots.)
1798Ann. Agric. Som. XXX. 354 Foreheads or head⁓lands. 1810Devon & Cornw. Voc. in Monthly Mag. June 436 Forehead about six feet space wide of earth round the hedges of a field, which is ploughed up, mixed with lime and carted or wheeled upon the field for manure.
†4. One holding the place of honour; a leader.[Not derived from sense 1; strictly a new formation.] c1640J. Smyth Lives Berkeleys (1883) II. 380 To have rated the forehead of his hounds, then in chase after a wrong bucke. 1641Sir E. Dering Sp. on Relig. 20 Nov. xiv. (1642) 45 Pretending to be a fore-head of Divinity.
5. attrib. and Comb., as forehead-band, forehead-bone, forehead-wrinkle; forehead-bald a., bald as to the forehead; forehead-cloth, a cloth or bandage formerly worn on the forehead by ladies; † forehead-piece (see quot.).
1530Tindale Lev. xiii. 41 Then he is *foreheadbalde.
1809A. Henry Trav. 24 A fillet, or *forehead-band.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xiii. 137 It was rather the *forehead bone petrified, then a stone within the crany. 1793Holcroft tr. Lavater's Physiog. vii. 44 The forehead bones remain unaltered.
1561Gifts to Queen in Nichols Progr. Q. Eliz. (1823) I. 116 Three *forehed-clothes of cameryk netted with gold. 1677Lond. Gaz. No 1245/4 Four laced Forehead Cloaths. 1767Connoisseur (ed. 5) III. No. 80. 71 A store of clouts, caps, forehead-cloths.
1673Wycherley Gentl. Dancing-Master iv. i, Every night since he came, I have worn the *forehead-piece of bees' wax and hogs' grease.
1572Huloet (ed. Higins), *Forehead wrinkles..rugæ frontis. |