a. [f. LOW a. + BROW sb.1 + -ED2.]

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  1.  Of persons: Having a low brow (see BROW sb.1 3 and 5).

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1868.  Browning, Ring & Bk., VI. 669. A low-browed verger sidled up.

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1899.  Crockett, Kit Kennedy, 305. Dick always had with him now a low-browed, smartly-dressed man.

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  fig.  1863.  I. Williams, Baptistery, I. viii. (1874), 91. When low-brow’d cares our mighty yearnings balk.

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  2.  transf. Of rocks: Beetling. Of a building, doorway, etc.: Having a low entrance; hence, dark, gloomy. The prevailing sense, app. due to Milton’s use of the word.

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1632.  Milton, L’Allegro, 8. There under … low-brow’d Rocks,… In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.

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1717.  Pope, Eloisa, 244. Low-browed rocks hang nodding o’er the deep.

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1810.  Scott, Lady of L., VI. xii. They halted by a low-brow’d porch.

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1824.  Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. I. 263. The picturesque, low-browed, irregular cottage.

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1889.  D. C. Murray, Dangerous Catspaw, 20. He paused before a sombre low-browed little shop.

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