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Webster 1913 Edition


Forehead

Fore′head

(?; 277)
,
Noun.
1.
The front of that part of the head which incloses the brain; that part of the face above the eyes; the brow.
2.
The aspect or countenance; assurance.
To look with
forehead
bold and big enough
Upon the power and puissance of the king.
Shakespeare
3.
The front or fore part of anything.
Flames in the
forehead
of the morning sky.
Milton.
So rich advantage of a promised glory
As smiles upon the
forehead
of this action.
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition


Forehead

FOREHEAD

,
Noun.
for'hed, or rather for'ed.
1.
The part of the face which extends from the hair on the top of the head to the eyes.
2.
Impudence; confidence; assurance; audaciousness.

Definition 2024


forehead

forehead

English

A human forehead.

Noun

forehead (plural foreheads)

  1. The part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline.
    • 1865, Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Macmillan
      'This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought, and it sat for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence. At last the Dodo said, ‘everybody has won, and all must have prizes.’'
    • 1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterI:
      Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. [] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess:
      The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. [].

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