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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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Etymology of 'Forehead'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Forehead" Quotes from Famous Books

... gray eyes, and a short, crisp brown beard and moustache, led the way at a lively pace over hill and dale around Lake Marapaug and back,—fourteen miles in three hours. Jones was rather red when they returned to the front gate of the rectory about five o'clock, and he wiped his beaded forehead with his handkerchief as he invited his comrade to come in and have a cup ...

— Days Off - And Other Digressions • Henry Van Dyke

... afterwards Andrew Murgatroyd showed his grizzled, long-bearded face with its high forehead, heavy brows, and broad-set eyes, long nose and shaven upper lip, just above the stairway and said, for all the world as though he might have been giving out the number of the hymn in his ...

— A Honeymoon in Space • George Griffith

... softly to herself while she sews. It is a sweet face which bends over the work, and it is framed in the daintiest of white caps edged with a wide ruffle which is turned back over the hair above the forehead, that it ...

— Jean Francois Millet • Estelle M. Hurll

... hands, and cries "give it me," and does it worse, and lays an engagement upon you too, and you must thank him for this pains. He lays you down an hundred wild plots, all impossible things, which you must be ruled by perforce, and he delivers them with a serious and counselling forehead; and there is a great deal more wisdom in this forehead than his head. He will woo for you, solicit for you, and woo you to suffer him; and scarce any thing done, wherein his letter, or his journey, or at least himself is not seen: if he have no task in it else, he will rail yet ...

— Character Writings of the 17th Century • Various

... swam round. It was all like a dream to me. I held my forehead with my hands, and gazed ...

— Recalled to Life • Grant Allen

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