ppl. a. Having a dark brow or front; frowning, scowling.
1590. Shaks., Mids. N., III. ii. 387. They … must for aye consort with blacke browd night.
1687. Dryden, Hind & P., III. 1144. Black-brow’d, and bluff, like Homer’s Jupiter.
1826. Sheridaniana, 317. Sheridan was dining with the black-browed Chancellor.
1882. Athenæum, 1 April, 421/3. A ruffian is not of necessity a black-browed … scoundrel.
