Beetle-browed

bē′tl-browd, adj. with overhanging or prominent brow: scowling.— v.i. Bee′tle , to jut, to hang over—first used by Shakespeare.— n. Beet′ling .— p.adj. jutting out: prominent: overhanging. [Dr Murray notes that the word is first found in the compound bitel -browed, in the 14th century, and favours the explanation, 'with eyebrows like a beetle's'—i.e. projecting eyebrows. See Beetle (1).]