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To wrinkle. "With a forehead ridged." Cowper.

word or act; an obeisance, performed by bowing very low and placing the right palm on the forehead. [Written also salaam.]

d monkey (Semnopitchecus melalophus) native of Sumatra. It has a crest of black hair. The forehead and cheeks are fawn color, the upper parts tawny and red, the under parts white. Called also black-crested monkey, and sinpæ.

ly; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate. The stone sunk into his forehead. 1 San. xvii. 49.

v. 39. And David . . . took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead. 1 Sam. xvii. 49.

A little lock of hair, plastered in a spiral form on the temple or forehead with spittle, or other adhesive substance. [Colloq.]

le point of the supraorbital line, which is a line drawn across the narrowest part of the forehead, separating the face from the cranium; the ophryon.

delicacy of the tactile sense varies on different parts of the skin; it is geatest on the forehead, temples and back of the forearm. H. N. Martin.

The space, on either side of the head, back of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch and in front of the ear.

tly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as, a tense fiber. The temples were sunk, her forehead was tense, and a fatal paleness was upon her. Goldsmith. -- Tense"ly, adv. -- Tense"ness, n.

A strap placed across a man's forehead to assist him in carrying a pack on his back. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

cephala). The adult in summer is mostly black, except some white streaks on the chest and forehead, and two white loral spots.

To open the folds of; to expand; to spread out; as, to unfold a tablecloth. Unfold thy forehead gathered into frowns. Herbert.

A white mark in the forehead of a horse, descending almost to the nose; -- called also white-blaze.

The European redstart; -- so called from its white forehead.

hen Satan first knew pain, And writhed him to and fro. Milton. Her mouth she writhed, her forehead taught to frown. Dryden. His battle-writhen arms, and mighty hands. Tennyson.