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• eye'brow-raising — adjective Surprising • • • Main Entry: ↑eye …   Useful english dictionary

• eye·brow — /ˈaıˌbraʊ/ noun, pl brows [count] : the line of hair that grows over your eye ◇ To raise an/your eyebrow is to move your eyebrow up in a way that shows surprise or mild disapproval. To raise eyebrows is to cause other people to react in this way …   Useful english dictionary

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• Brow — (brou), n. [OE. browe, bruwe, AS. br[=u]; akin to AS. br[=ae]w, bre[ a]w, eyelid, OFries. br[=e], D. braauw, Icel. br[=a], br[=u]n, OHG. pr[=a]wa, G. braue, OSlav. br[u^]v[i^], Russ. brove, Ir. brai, Ir. & Gael. abhra, Armor. abrant, Gr. ofry s,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Eye surgery — Intervention Eye surgery in the Middle Ages. ICD 10 PCS 08 ICD 9 CM …   Wikipedia

• brow — /brow/, n. 1. Anat. the ridge over the eye. 2. the hair growing on that ridge; eyebrow. 3. the forehead: He wore his hat low over his brow. 4. a person s countenance or mien. 5. the edge of a steep place: She looked down over the brow of the hill …   Universalium

• brow — (n.) words for eyelid, eyelash, and eyebrow changed about maddeningly in Old and Middle English (and in all the West Germanic languages). Linguists have untangled the knot into two strands: 1. O.E. bræw (Anglian *brew) eyelid, from P.Gmc. *bræwi… …   Etymology dictionary

• brow|ridge — «BROW RIHJ», noun. the supraorbital ridge that overhangs the eye in the skulls of certain apes and hominoids: »the large browridges of the Neanderthal man s skullcap …   Useful english dictionary

• Eye rhyme — Eye rhyme, also called visual rhyme and sight rhyme, is a similarity in spelling between words that are pronounced differently and hence, not an auditory rhyme. An example is the pair slaughter and laughter.Many older English poems, particularly… …   Wikipedia

• Eye of Horus — The Eye of Horus (Wedjat) [Chapter 14, Egyptian Art in David P. Silverman, Ancient Egypt , Duncan Baird Publishers, 1997. p.228] (previously Wadjet and the Eye of the Moon; and afterwards as The Eye of Ra) [ Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache 1,… …   Wikipedia

• brow — noun 1 line of hair above the eye ⇨ See also ↑eyebrow ADJECTIVE ▪ dark, heavy ▪ bushy ▪ delicate VERB + BROW ▪ …   Collocations dictionary