Word Finder - furrowed

definition

To cut one or more grooves in (the ground, etc.).

example

Cart wheels can furrow roads.

definition

To wrinkle.

definition

To pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to concentration, worry, etc.

example

As she read the document intently her brows began to furrow.

synonyms

• frown

The man stepped out and those piercing blue eyes questioned her silently from under furrowed bows.

His brows furrowed deeper.

Her brow furrowed, and she straightened.

Miriam leaned in with a furrowed brow, whispering, "You've seen her in wolf form?"

Jule's brow furrowed, and Sofi smiled.

Her brow furrowed in guarded curiosity as he stared at her.

Her brow furrowed at the odd sentiment.

His reflective gaze searched her face, his brows furrowed with concern.

Jenn's brow furrowed, but she responded quickly.

The observations of Strachey, Godwin-Austen and of Griesbach and other members of the Geological Survey of India only extend to the southern edge or rim of the great plateau, where vast alluvial deposits in horizontal strata have been furrowed into deep ravines, while Russian explorers have but superficially examined the mountain regions of the north and north-east, and the British mission to Lhasa, in 1904 afforded observations merely along the trade-route to that city.

The surface is by no means a uniform plain, but is a broad undulating tract, furrowed throughout by numerous depressions, with precipitous banks, serving as water-courses, though rarely traversed by any considerable stream.

Isatis glauca is a handsome perennial of 3 feet, with grey-green furrowed stems and long narrow leaves with a white mid-rib.

Cora followed her gaze, brow furrowed.

The furrowed surface of the earth gives the land-area a star-shaped figure, which may from time to time have varied in outline, but in the main has been permanent.

At some points the rugged cliffs, furrowed by deep ravines, approach close to the sea; elsewhere the hills leave a considerable maritime plain between their base and the shore line.

Mr. Reynolds furrowed silver brows in a futile reprimand of his son.

These stems are whitish when young, but rapidly harden to become green, tough, furrowed and woody.

The bark of tupelos is roughly furrowed, so that it is often the host for mosses and lichens.

The furrowed foreheads were introduced in Next Generation to make the Klingons look more visibly alien, but which set up canon-inconsistency with original series Klingons.

He glanced up sharply, his brows furrowed.

As if sensing the weight of the word, he turned, brow furrowed.

His brows furrowed again and his gaze drifted off in thought.

Senor asked, his forehead furrowed with apprehension.

The fruit is oblong, fleshy and contains one very hard seed which is deeply furrowed on the inside.

It is sometimes smooth; but sometimes it is a shaggy skin (or woollen) skirt with horizontal rows of vertically furrowed stuff.

Deidre's brows furrowed at his no-nonsense tone.

It is frequently found upon deities, kings and magnates, and appears to have been composed of some thick furrowed or fluted material, sometimes of bright and variegated design.

The antlers are short, upright and deeply furrowed, the beam forking at about two-thirds of its length, and the upper prong again dividing, thus making three points.

The bark is red, like that of the Scots fir, deeply furrowed, with the ridges often much curved and twisted.

The peaks of the mountain are irregular, abrupt and broken; its sides are deeply furrowed by gorges and ravines; the shore plain is broken by ridges and by broad and deep valleys; no other island of the group is so well watered on all sides by large mountain streams; and it is called " garden isle."

The fourth period is that in which the various subaerial agencies of abrasion, and especially the streams which drain the mountain chain of the Apennines, have produced the present features of the Campagna, a plain furrowed by gullies and ravines.

The rocks are deeply furrowed and cut into ridges, evidence of the long period over which they have been subjected to atmospheric influences.

The greater part of that now desert region is, indeed, furrowed by old water-channels.

The cortex was deeply furrowed on its youngest stems; secondary growth (Scott, Studies.) FIG.

Of the European kinds one of the most important and best marked forms is the white poplar or abele, P. alba, a tree of large size, with rounded spreading head and curved branches, which, like the trunk, are covered with a greyish white bark, becoming much furrowed on old stems. The leaves are ovate or nearly round in general outline, but with deeply waved, more or less lobed and indented margins and cordate base; the upper side is of a dark green tint, but the lower surface is clothed with a dense white down, which likewise covers the young shoots - giving, with the bark, a hoary aspect to the whole tree.

Linda's brow furrowed, but she held out her hand.

Deidre watched him, brow furrowed.

She reread the entry, brow furrowed.

The way her brow furrowed when she wasn't pleased with the canvas, then the expression of satisfaction when her brushes cooperated.

The idea furrowed her brows.

Between the Halys and the Iris the mountain rim is comparatively low and broken, but east of the Iris it is a continuous lofty ridge (called by the ancients Paryadres and Scydises), whose rugged northern slopes are furrowed by torrent beds, down which a host of small streams (among them the Thermodon, famed in Amazon story) tumble to the sea.

The glaciers also attain a greater development in the western portion of the Nan-shan, but the valleys are dry, and the slopes of both the mountains and the valleys, furrowed by deep ravines, are devoid of vegetation.

On the east are furrowed and rugged slopes, rising to the great plateau of the Jaulan (Gaulonitis).

These ridges are separated by longitudinal and furrowed by transverse valleys.

You saw a plain, old-fashioned face, without life or lustre - a figure which had never looked young, and was now prematurely aged; the furrowed face bore witness to concentrated thought.

The bark is thick and furrowed, and of a pale fawn colour internally; the rootlets are few, and the root itself is of larger diameter than in the other kinds.

As he sat on the judgment-seat, ` the deep thought betrayed in his furrowed brow - the large eyebrows, overhanging eyes that seemed to regard more what was taking place within than around him - his calmness, that would have assumed a character of sternness but for its perfect placidity - his dignity, repose and venerable age, tended at once to win confidence and to inspire respect ' (Townsend).

To this peculiar fruit the term caryopsis has been applied (more familiarly " grain "); it is commonly furrowed longitudinally down one side (usually the inner, but in Coix and its allies, the outer), and an additional covering is not unfrequently provided by the adherence of the persistent palea, or even also of the flowering FIG.

The slopes on each side of the sea are furrowed with watercourses, some of them perennial, others winter torrents only.

A sharp look under furrowed brows preceded his terse answer.