One having thick projecting eyebrows.
·- Having prominent, overhanging brows; hence, lowering or sullen. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·adj Having (such) a brow; — used in composition; as, dark-browed, stern-browed. ...
·vt To beat with a heavy mallet. II. Beetle ·vt A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavement...
(Heb. hargol, meaning "leaper"). Mention of it is made only in Lev. 11:22, where it is obvious the w...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
A shipwright's heavy mallet for driving the wedges called reeming irons, so as to open the seams in ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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William Smith's Bible Dictionary
·adj Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding. ...
·adj Shamelessly impudent. ...
·adj Having a gloomy look. ...
·add. ·- A bark beetle that feeds on ambrosia. ...
·- A small beetle of many species (family Scolytidae), which in the larval state bores under or in t...
·- An overhanging brow. ...
·adj Dull; stupid. ...
·- ·see <<Elater>>. ...
·- A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has...
·- A very brilliantly luminous beetle (Pyrophorus noctilucus), one of the elaters, found in Central ...
·noun A small beetle of the family Halticidae, of many species. They have strong posterior legs and ...
·- Any species of Goliathus, a genus of very large and handsome African beetles. ...
·add. ·- A small black dermestoid beetle (Attagenus piceus) whose larva feeds on tapestry, carpets, ...
·- Any one of numerous species of aquatic beetles belonging to Dytiscus and allied genera of the fam...
Dull, stupid. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
A large beetle, weighing 1000 lbs., swayed up by a crabwinch to a height, and dropped by a pincer-sh...
A caulker's largest mallet. ...
A heavy mallet. There is an old proverb: "A Dover court; all speakers and no hearers." "A Dover co...