eyebrow

Meanings

Noun

• The hair that grows over the bone ridge above the eye socket.
• A dormer, usually of small size, whose roof line over the upright face is typically an arched curve, turning into a reverse curve to meet the horizontal line at either end.
• A clump of waste fibres that builds up in a roller machine.

Verb

• To build up waste fibres in a roller machine.
• To signal with one's eyebrows.

Origin

• From Middle English eȝebreu, alteration of Old English ēaganbrū ("eyebrow"), equivalent to eye + brow. The corresponding Old English ēagbrǣw meant "eyelid". Compare Dutch oogbrauw, German Augenbraue.