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noun

Forehead n.

The front of that part of the head which incloses the brain; that part of the face above the eyes; the brow.

The aspect or countenance; assurance. "To look with forehead bold and big enough Upon the power and puissance of the king."

The front or fore part of anything. "Flames in the forehead of the morning sky." "So rich advantage of a promised glory As smiles upon the forehead of this action."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... repelled all advances. Covey was not a large man; he was only about five feet ten inches in height, I should think; short necked, round shoulders; of quick and wiry motion, of thin and wolfish visage; with a pair of small, greenish-gray eyes, set well back under a forehead without dignity, and constantly in motion, and floating his passions, rather than his thoughts, in sight, but denying them utterance in words. The creature presented an appearance altogether ferocious and sinister, disagreeable and forbidding, in the extreme. When he spoke, ...

— My Bondage and My Freedom • Frederick Douglass

... far that there were now days when it was pleasant to be out in the soft warmth of the afternoons. The day when Ewbert climbed to the Hilbrook homestead it was even a little hot, and he came up to the dooryard mopping his forehead with his handkerchief, and glad of the southwestern breeze which he caught at this point over the shoulder of the hill. He had expected to go round to the side door of the house, where he had parted with Hilbrook on his ...

— A Pair of Patient Lovers • William Dean Howells

... it in the air, brought it down on the King's shield with such force that the sound of the stroke echoed afar. Nothing daunted, Arthur dealt a trenchant stroke with Excalibur, and gave the giant a cut on the forehead which made the blood gush forth over his eyes so as nearly to blind him. But shrewd as was the blow, the giant had warded his forehead with his club in such wise that he had not received a deadly ...

— Legends & Romances of Brittany • Lewis Spence

... Peggy," said the innkeeper. "We shall not be here long. My daughter is afraid you will disturb her grandmother," he said turning to the gentlemen. "My mother is——" A motion of his finger towards his forehead completed the sentence more ...

— The Shrieking Pit • Arthur J. Rees

... opened is lighter than the surface in it's natural position. there are some fine black and shining hairs intermixed with the fur which are reather longer and add much to it's beauty. the nose, about the eyes ears and forehead in some of these otter is of a lighter colour, sometimes a light brown. those parts in the young sucking Otter of this species is sometimes of a cream coloured white, but always much lighter than the other parts. the fur of the infant ...

— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al

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