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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
BROW'BEATING, ppr. Overbearing with severe brows, stern looks, or positive assertions.
BROW'BEATING, n. A bearing down with stern looks, supercilious manners, or confident assertions.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Browbeat Brow"beat`, v. t. [imp. Browbeat; p. p. Browbeaten; p. pr. & vb. n. Browbeating.] To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; to abash or disconcert by impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully; as, to browbeat witnesses. My grandfather was not a man to be browbeaten. --W. Irving.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Browbeating Brow"beat`ing, n. The act of bearing down, abashing, or disconcerting, with stern looks, supercilious manners, or confident assertions. The imperious browbeatings and scorn of great men. --L'Estrange.
