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# brow

noun (a brow, brows)

«brow» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Your brow is your forehead, the part of your face above your eyes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brow/#m1)
2. A brow is an eyebrow: «She raised her brows». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brow/#m2)
3. The brow of a hill is the top of it, where it starts to slope down. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brow/#m3)

### In the lessons

In stories «he wiped his brow» shows a character is hot or worried; «a furrowed brow» means wrinkles from thinking or worry. In safety, drivers are told not to overtake on the brow of a hill because they cannot see what is coming. Phrases: wipe your brow, knit your brows, furrowed brow, highbrow and lowbrow.

### Examples

- He wiped the sweat from his brow. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brow/#x1)
- She frowned and her brow wrinkled. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brow/#x2)
- The car slowed down at the brow of the hill. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brow/#x3)
- Grandad raised his brows in surprise. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brow/#x4)
- With a furrowed brow, Tom stared at the maths problem. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brow/#x5)
- We could see the sea from the brow of the hill. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brow/#x6)
- Perspiration hung like beads on his brow. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brow/#x7)

### Note

Rhymes with «cow», not «grow». Plural «brows». «Eyebrow» is the more usual everyday word for the hair above the eye.

## In Jewish tradition

Interpretation: Isaiah calls the people's brow "brass" to mean they are stubborn and shameless. Tradition reads this as a warning against a hard heart that will not listen. In the primary lessons: In stories «he wiped his brow» shows a character is hot or worried; «a furrowed brow» means wrinkles from thinking or worry. In safety, drivers are told not to overtake on the brow of a hill because they cannot see what is coming. Phrases: wipe your brow, knit your brows, furrowed brow, highbrow and lowbrow.

### Examples

- Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass; (Prophets ISA.48.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/brow/#x1)

### Note

Rhymes with «cow», not «grow». Plural «brows». «Eyebrow» is the more usual everyday word for the hair above the eye.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «brow» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brow/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«brow» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/brow.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «brow» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/brow/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«brow» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/brow.html) on Mova free.