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The aspect or countenance; assurance. To look with forehead bold and big enough Upon the power and puissance of the king. Shak.

The two projecting feathered angles of the forehead of some birds; the frontal points.

called from a custom in the Roman Catholic church of putting ashes, on that day, upon the foreheads of penitents.

The short, front hair combed down over the forehead, esp. when cut squarely across; a false front of hair similarly worn. His hair cut in front like a young lady's bang. W. D. Howells.

uid medicament to; as, to bathe the eye with warm water or with sea water; to bathe one's forehead with camphor.

A white spot on the forehead of a horse.

A South African antelope (Alcelaphus albifrons), having a large white spot on the forehead.

Steep; abrupt; prominent. Where the bold cape its warning forehead rears. Trumbull.

women, usually protecting more or less the back and sides of the head, but no part of the forehead. The shape of the bonnet varies greatly at different times; formerly the front part projected, and spread outward, like the mouth of a funnel.

To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen. The lawer who bronzes his bosom instead of his forehead. Sir W. Scott. Bronzed skin disease. (Pathol.) See Addison's disease.

The forehead; as, a feverish brow. Beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow. Shak.

A long-tailed South American monkey (Cabus capucinus), having the forehead naked and wrinkled, with the hair on the crown reflexed and resembling a monk's cowl, the rest being of a grayish white; -- called also capucine monkey, weeper, sajou, sapajou, and sai.

ral; contrary to nature. [R.] Some artists . . . have given to Sir Walter Scott a pile of forehead which is unpleassing and cataphysical. De Quincey.

A divice placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.

or otherwise; to wrinkle; to purse up; as, to corrugate plates of iron; to corrugate the forehead. Corrugated iron, sheet iron bent into a series of alternate ridges and grooves in parallel lines, giving it greater stiffness. -- Corrugated paper, a thick, coarse paper corrugated in order to give it elasticity. It is…

A muscle which contracts the skin of the forehead into wrinkles.

A tuft of hair turned up or awry (usually over the forehead), as if licked by a cow.

giants, sons of Neptune and Amphitrite, having but one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead. They were fabled to inhabit Sicily, and to assist in the workshops of Vulcan, under Mt. Etna.

repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky. Milton.

eat; the expansive quality of air. A more expansive and generous compassion. Eustace. His forehead was broad and expansive. Prescott. -- Ex*pan"sive*ly, adv. -Ex*pan"sive*ness, n.