forehead

Noun

forehead (countable and uncountable, plural foreheads)

1. (countable) The part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline.
   • 'This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought, and it sat for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence. At last the Dodo said, ‘everybody has won...1865, Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Macmillan
   • Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.[…]She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her...1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
2. (uncountable) confidence; audacity; impudence.
   • Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty;
     For in my youth I never did apply
     Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood,
     Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo
     The means of weakness and debilityc. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
3. The upper part of a mobile phone, above the screen.