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black-browed, ppl. a.|ˈblækbraʊd|
a. Having a dark brow or front; frowning, scowling.
1590Shakes. Mids. N. iii. ii. 387 They..must for aye consort with blacke browd night. 1687Dryden Hind & P. iii. 1144 Black-brow'd, and bluff, like Homer's Jupiter. 1826Sheridaniana 317 Sheridan was dining with the black-browed Chancellor. 1882Athenæum 1 Apr. 421/3 A ruffian is not of necessity a black-browed..scoundrel.
b. black-browed albatross, an albatross, Diomedea melanophrys, found in the south Atlantic Ocean.
[1865Gould Handbk. Birds Australia II. 438 Diomedea Melanophrys..Black-eyebrowed Albatros.] 1883Encycl. Brit. XV. 334/2 All the rest of the plumage is white, except a dusky superciliary streak, whence its name of Black-browed Albatros. 1968T. Stokes Birds of Atlantic Ocean 26/2 The black-browed albatross is a beautiful bird of regular, clear-cut marking. |