Frontlet

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Frontlet \Front"let\, n. [OF. frontelet brow band, dim. of
     frontel, frontal. See {Frontal}, n.]
     1. A frontal or brow band; a fillet or band worn on the
        forehead.
        [1913 Webster]
  


              They shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
                                                    --Deut. vi. 8.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. A frown (likened to a frontlet). [R. & Poetic]
        [1913 Webster]
  
              What makes that frontlet on? Methinks you are too
              much of late i' the frown.            --Shak.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. (Zool.) The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds,
        often bearing rigid bristles.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  frontlet
       n : an adornment worn on the forehead [syn: {frontal}]