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Webster 1913 Edition
Frontlet
1.
A frontal or brow band; a fillet or band worn on the forehead.
They shall be as
frontlets
between thine eyes. Deut. vi. 8.
2.
A frown (likened to a frontlet).
[R. & Poetic]
What makes that
frontlet
on? Methinks you are too much of late i’ the frown. Shakespeare
3.
(Zool.)
The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles.
Webster 1828 Edition
Frontlet
FRONT'LET
,Noun.
Definition 2024
frontlet
frontlet
English
Noun
frontlet (plural frontlets)
- (obsolete) The forehead.
- The forehead of an animal, especially of a deer or stag (including the antlers).
- An ornament worn on the forehead.
- A bandage or medical preparation worn around the head.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.5.1.vi:
- Frontlets are known to every goodwife: rose-water and vinegar, with a little woman's milk, and nutmegs grated upon a rose-cake applied to both temples.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.5.1.vi: