a. c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., I. 352. Niwe ʓate cyse oferʓeseted mid þa eaʓbræwas.
c. 1300. Song, agst. Retinues, in Pol. Songs (Camden), 239. Sene is on is browe Ant on is eȝe-brewe, That [etc.].
1562. Turner, Herbal, II. (1568) 137 b. The juyce of it [mustarde] … is good … for the roughnes of the eybrees.
1604. T. Wright, Passions, I. vii. 29. The fornication of a woman shall be knowen by the lifting vp of her eyes, and in her eye-bries.
1607. Markham, Caval., V. 16. All those long and stiffe hayres which growe close aboue his vpper eye brees.
1787. in Grose, Provinc. Gloss., Suppl. (1814).
b. 1577. B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb., III. (1586), 117. A horse when he beginnes to be olde, his temples waxe hollowe, his eye bries gray.
1615. G. Sandys, Trav., 67–8. Into the same hue (but likely they naturally are so) do they die their eie-breis, and eye-browes.
c. 1776. Herd, Scot. Songs, I. 210. And the sweat it dropt down Frae my very eye-brie.
a. 1808. Jamieson, Water-Kelpie, 43 (in Scott, Minstr.). Of filthy gar his ee-brees war.
1862. Dialect of Leeds, 257. ‘Ee-brees,’ eyebrows.
Mod. Sc. He is dirt up to the very ee-brees.
