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An obsolete spelling of brow. brougham (brö'am or bröm), n. [After the first Lord Brough am. ] A four Brougham. wheeled close carriage, with one or two horses, and adapted to carry either two or four persons. Brotulina (brot-u-li'nä), n . pl . [NL., Bro- tula + -ina .] In Günther's system of cla i- fication, the first group of Ophidiida , having brouilleriet, n. See broilery . ventral fins developed and attached to the hubroukt, v. t. An older form of brook2 . meral arch. brought (brot). Preterit and past participle of bring. brouset, v. See bruise. Brou a ware Brou a ware. See pottery. Bro us so net i a (brö-so-nē'shiä), n. [NL., after M. Brou onet or Brou ounet, a French naturalist (1761-1807).] A genus of plants, of two or three species, natural order Urticaceæ, nearly allied to the mulberry, natives of eastern Asia and the Pacific islands. The paper-mulberry ( B. ра pyrifera ) and B. Kæmpferi are cultivated in China and Japan, where the bark of the young shoots is the chief material for the manufacture of paper. From the bark of the paper-mulberry is also made the tapa-cloth extensively used throughout Polynesia. brouzet, n. and v. See browsel. brow (brou), n. [ = (Bro us so net i a papy rifer a ). 697 Frontal neuralgia. [From J. Browall brow-ague (brou'ā gū), n. Browallia (brō-wal'i-ä), n. (1707-55), bishop of Åbo in Finland.] A genus of South American herbaceous plants, natural order Scrophulariaceæ , some species of which are cultivated for ornament. brow-antler (brou'ant"ler), n. 1. The first spike that grows on a deer's head.-2. The first branch or tine of an antler, overhanging the forehead. See antler . Also called brow -snag. brow-band (brouʼband), n. 1. A band or fillet worn round the brow.-2. In saddlery , a band of a bridle, headstall, or halter, which pa es in front of the horse's forehead, and has loops at its ends through which pa the cheek-straps. browbeat (brou bēt), v. t.; pret. browbeat , pp. Fruiting Branch of browbeaten , ppr. browbeating . [ beat .] the Paper-mulberry To depre or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with arrogant speech and dogmatic a ertions; in general, to bear down by impudence. He [Jeffreys] soon found that it was not quite so easy to browbeat the proud and powerful barons of England in their own hall, as to intimidate barristers whose bread depended on his favor, or prisoners whose necks were at his appar. formative -n) Icel. brūn, old pl. brynn, = Sw. Dan. bryn (>E. brine2, q. v.) (cf. G. braune, below), eyebrow; closely related to ME. brew, breow, brey, bre, bra, bro, etc., eyebrow, Bohem. brwi, obrwi = Pol. brew = Ru . brovi = Lith. bruvis, eyebrow, = Gr. ὀφρύς, eyebrow, = Pers. abrū = Zend brvat = Skt. bhrā, eyebrow; cf. Ir. Gael. abhra, eyelid. Perhaps related to brae, bray4, q. v., and ult. to E. bridgel.] 1. The prominent ridge over the eye, forming an arch above the orbit.-2. The arch of hair over the eye; the eyebrow. Your inky brows , your black silk hair. 3. The forehead. Shak., As you Like it, iii. 5. Beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., ii. 3. 4. The general expre ion of the countenance. He told them with a maisterly Brow , that by this act he had oblig'd them above what they had deserv'd. Milton , Eikon ok las tes, v. To whom thus Satan, with contemptuous brow. Milton , P. L., iv. 885. 5. In entom., that part of an insect's head which lies between the clypeus and the vertex, generally just above the antenne.-6. The edge of a steep place; the upper portion of a slope: as, "the brow of the hill," Luke iv. 29.-7. In England, a fringe of coppice adjoining the hedge of a field.-8. In coal - mining, an underground roadway leading to a working-place, driven either to the rise or to the dip. Gres ley. [Leicestershire, Eng.] -9. Naut., an old name for an inclined plane of planks from the A Ship's Brow. shore or the ground to a ship, to facilitate entry and exit. In this sense also spelled brough. 10. In a saw-mill, an incline up which logs are drawn to be sawed.-11. [Also written broo; taken as a particular use of brow, "an ill brow " being then orig. a frowning or unfavorable look; "nae brow," no (sc. favorable) look or view.] View; opinion: in the phrases an ill brow, an unfavorable opinion; nae brow, no good opinion. [Scotch.] But thir ridings and wappenshawings, my leddy, I hae nae broo of them ava. Scott , Old Mortality, vii. Bent brow. (a) An arched eyebrow. (b) A wrinkled or knit brow. To knit the brows, to frown. brow (brou), v. t. [ brow, n.] To form a brow or elevated border to. [Rare.] Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vi. was browbeaten and intimidated. Jefferson, Correspondence, II. 485. =Syn. To overbear, insult, bully, hector.