Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In ornithology, having a white superciliary streak: as, the white-browed sparrow, Zonotrichia leucophrys.

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Examples

  • And his grandsons were at the lake, a pair of white-browed boys in down vests, primed for blood sport.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • And his grandsons were at the lake, a pair of white-browed boys in down vests, primed for blood sport.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • And his grandsons were at the lake, a pair of white-browed boys in down vests, primed for blood sport.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Vegetation change associated with pastoral impact led to decreases and local extinctions of some bird species, especially those associated with riparian areas, such as white-browed robin (Poecilodryas superciliosa) and purple-crowned fairy-wren.

    Victoria Plains tropical savanna 2008

  • This ecoregion contains three endemic bird species: the striped laughingthrush (Garrulax virgatus), brown-capped laughingthrush (Garrulax austeni), and white-browed nuthatch (Sitta victoriae) (Table 1).

    Chin Hills-Arakan Yoma montane forests 2007

  • But she had no desire to read the eloquent little newspaper essays in praise of labor which are daily written by the white-browed journalistic prophets.

    Main Street 2004

  • "Greeting," the taskmaster replied, after he had inspected the white-browed servant.

    The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller

  • But she had no desire to read the eloquent little newspaper essays in praise of labor which are daily written by the white-browed journalistic prophets.

    Main Street 1920

  • Beside the cabin was a garden tended by the bargeman's comely white-browed wife; a dozen daisies and geraniums in two starch-boxes.

    The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • As the desert sky swam with orange light and a white-browed woman in the seat behind him hummed Musetta's song from "La Bohème" he was homesick for the outlanders, whom he was deserting that he might stick for twenty years in one street and grub out a hundred thousand dollars.

    The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Sinclair Lewis 1918

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