Category:Frontlet

Front"let, n. Etym: [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. 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. Shak.

3. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles.