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forehead Definition

fore·head (fôr′ed′, -hed′; fär′-; --id)

noun

  1. the part of the face between the eyebrows and the line where the hair normally begins
  2. Old Poet. the front part of anything

Etymology: ME forhed < OE forheafod: see fore- & head

forehead Synonyms

forehead

n.

brow, front, aspect, visage, countenance, temples.

forehead Usage Examples

Possessives

  • person: Imagine there is a triangle on the other person's forehead.
  • man: Matt frowned and gently rested a hand on the injured man's forehead, feeling the heat building again.
  • child: The priest, parents, godparents and others at the font trace the sign of the cross on the child's forehead.

Converse of object

  • wrinkle: The wedge shaped face with the wrinkled forehead are also peculiar to the breed.
  • dome: A few long wisps of white hair, like shreds of a torn spider web, clinging to the domed, blue-veined forehead.
  • shine: He grunted, wiped his shining forehead with the back of his wrist and sat down.
  • have: They often have a low, slanting forehead, a receding forehead.
  • recede: They often have a low, slanting forehead, a receding forehead.
  • touch: They do absurd things like remove eyes, do therapy with colored lights, and remove severe pain by touching the forehead.

Adjective modifier

  • bulbous: Northern bottlenose whales are easily identifiable by their bulbous foreheads and can grow to eight meters in length.
  • bald: He was an elderly man, with a thin, projecting nose, a high, bald forehead, and a huge grizzled mustache.
  • sloping: He can`t help it, and I must admit that he has a formidable mind beneath his sloping forehead.
  • prominent: The torso develops to its proper size, but the head may be larger than normal with a prominent forehead and flat nose.
  • broad: Broad forehead, large head - the eyes, mouth and lips are usually prominent.
  • smooth: When I was twelve I knew a girl with cream skin and white blond hair springing from a smooth forehead.

Modifies a noun

  • vein: Pulsations in forehead veins realizes the impact few people who.
  • feather: The U of [ W ] forehead feathers develops slowly on some swans.
  • line: RESTYLANE Fine Lines for correcting thin, superficial lines, for example around the eyes and mouth, forehead lines and smile lines.

Noun used with modifier

  • thy: A dream; yet still the radiant Infant's kiss Burns on thy forehead as a seal of fire!
  • helmsman: Howard Ramm continues: " Helmsman Forehead 's actions were truly representative of a helmsman completely in control of the situation.
forehead Quotes

Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor, So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new spangled ore, Flames in the forehead of the morning sky: So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high, Through the dear might of Him that walked the waves.

—Milton,John

He tapped his forehead.'These little grey cells. It is up to themöas you say over here.'

—Christie, Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa ne¤  e Miller

L'amour, heurtant son front aveugle a'   tous les obstacles de la civilisation. Love, knocking its blind forehead against all of civilization's obstacles.

—Samuelson, Sir Sydney

There was a little girl Who had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead; And when she was good She was very, very good, But when she was bad, she was horrid.

—Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Chumps always make the best husbands.When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his forehead first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains.What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him.

—Plum