brownoun
uk/braʊ/us/braʊ/brow noun (FACE)
[ C usually singular ] literary the forehead (= part of the face above the eyes):
She wrinkled her brow as she thought.
He paused at the top of the hill and mopped his brow (= rubbed the sweat away).
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The head & face
- -cheeked
- -chinned
- -faced
- chin
- countenance
- dimple
- facial
- facies
- frontalis
- hairline
- mandible
- nape
- neck
- nose
- nucha
- nuchal
- pes anserinus
- splenius
- temple
- temporal
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brow noun (HILL)
[ S ] the top part of a hill or the edge of something high such as a cliff or rock:
the brow of the hill
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Edges & extremities of objects
- apex
- apices
- bevel
- border
- bottom
- brim
- crest
- edge
- framed
- fringe
- front
- head
- palm-fringed
- peripheral
- periphery
- rim
- skirt
- surmount
- tip
- vertex
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Geography: hills & mountains