beetle brow

A projecting brow, like one of the transverse projections on the head of a mallet. It is the portion just above the eyes called the superciliary ridge, made by the projection of the frontal sinus. [BEETLE ν. (2).] "He had a beetle-brow, A down-look, middle stature, with black hair." Sir R. Fanshaw: Tr . of Pastor Fido , р. 175. It is sometimes used in the plural. "His blobber lips and bestle - brows commend." Dryden: Juv., Sat. iii. beetle-browed, * bitel-browed, a. Having a projecting brow. "Enquire for the beetle -brow'd critic, ."-Swift. "He was bitelbrowed and baberlipped also." Piers Plowman (ed. Skeat), bk. v. 190.