black-browed, ppl. a.
(ˈblækbraʊd)
a. Having a dark brow or front; frowning, scowling.
| 1590 Shakes. 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 Apr. 421/3 A ruffian is not of necessity a black-browed..scoundrel. |
b. black-browed albatross, an albatross, Diomedea melanophrys, found in the south Atlantic Ocean.
| [1865 Gould Handbk. Birds Australia II. 438 Diomedea Melanophrys..Black-eyebrowed Albatros.] 1883 Encycl. Brit. XV. 334/2 All the rest of the plumage is white, except a dusky superciliary streak, whence its name of Black-browed Albatros. 1968 T. Stokes Birds of Atlantic Ocean 26/2 The black-browed albatross is a beautiful bird of regular, clear-cut marking. |