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a. Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding. Shak. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who borrows. [ 1913 Webster ]

Neither a borrower nor a lender be. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Shamelessly impudent. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having (such) a brow; -- used in composition; as, dark-browed, stern-browed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, burrows; an animal that makes a hole under ground and lives in it. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a gloomy look. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mil.) a weapon that squirts ignited liquid or gelatinous fuel for several yards. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. frow a frower, and Prov. E, frommard. ] A tool. See 2d Frow. Tusser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Frow, a. ] (Carp.) Working smoothly, or without splitting; -- said of timber. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who grows or produces; as, a grower of corn; also, that which grows or increases; as, a vine may be a rank or a slow grower. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who harrows. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who harries. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. highly cultured or educated; pertaining to highly educated people; as, highbrow events such as the ballet or opera. [ informal ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Micro- + weber. ] (Elec.) The millionth part of one weber. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. reduced in size as if by being squeezed.
Syn. -- constricted. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who, or that which, narrows or contracts. Hannah More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. proece, proesce, F. prouesse. See Prow, a. ] Distinguished bravery; valor; especially, military bravery and skill; gallantry; intrepidity; fearlessness. Chaucer. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

He by his prowess conquered all France. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Formed into a row, or rows; having a row, or rows; as, a twelve-rowed ear of corn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. roele, rouele, properly, a little wheel, F. rouelle collop, slice, LL. rotella a little wheel, dim. of L. rota a wheel. See Roll, and cf. Rota. ] 1. The little wheel of a spur, with sharp points. [ 1913 Webster ]

With sounding whip, and rowels dyed in blood. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A little flat ring or wheel on horses' bits. [ 1913 Webster ]

The iron rowels into frothy foam he bit. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Far.) A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of horses, answering to a seton in human surgery. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Roweled r Rowelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Roweling or Rowelling. ] (Far.) To insert a rowel, or roll of hair or silk, into (as the flesh of a horse). Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

See rewel bone. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. E. rough, OE. row, rowe. ] [ Called also rowet, rowett, rowings, roughings. ] 1. A stubble field left unplowed till late in the autumn, that it may be cropped by cattle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Turn your cows, that give milk, into your rowens till snow comes. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The second growth of grass in a season; aftermath. [ Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who rows with an oar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Rowen. [ 1913 Webster ]

pr>(&unr_;), a. Accompanied with sorrow; sorrowful. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A turning lathe. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who throws. Specifically: (a) One who throws or twists silk; a throwster. (b) One who shapes vessels on a throwing engine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. truel, OF. truele, F. truelle, LL. truella, L. trulla, dim. of trua a ladle; probably akin to Gr. &unr_; a stirrer, ladle, G. quirl a stirrer, MHG. twirel, OHG. dwiril, Icel. þvara, AS. þwiril. Cf. Twirl. ] 1. A mason's tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A gardener's tool, somewhat like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring the earth, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Founding) A tool used for smoothing a mold. [ 1913 Webster ]

Trowel bayonet. See Spade bayonet, under Spade. --
Fish trowel. See Fish slice, under Fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

Formed with a trowel; smoothed with a trowel; as, troweled stucco, that is, stucco laid on and ready for the reception of paint. [ Written also trowelled. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Trowelfuls As much as a trowel will hold; enough to fill a trowel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not borrowed; being one's own; native; original. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not sorrowed for; unlamented. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who raises sheep for the production of wool. -- Wool"grow`ing, n. [1913 Webster]