rare. [f. BROW sb.1]

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  1.  trans. To form a brow to, be on the brow of.

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1634.  Milton, Comus, 532. The hilly crofts That brow this bottom glade.

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1797.  Mrs. Radcliffe, Italian, xxii. The woods that browed the hill.

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1834.  J. Hodgson, in J. Raine, Mem. (1858), II. 357. Browed and hemmed with old brushwood and young plantations.

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  2.  To face, browbeat. Sc.

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1822.  Hogg, Perils of Man, I. 21 (Jam.). I wad rather brow a’ the Ha’s and the Howards afore I beardit you. Ibid., 61. Stepping forward and browing the last speaker face to face.

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