Dictionary entry

Frown (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Frown, n. 1. A wrinkling of the face in displeasure, rebuke, etc.; a sour, severe, or stern look; a scowl.

His front yet threatens, and his frowns command. Prior.

Her very frowns are fairer far

Than smiles of other maidens are. H. Coleridge.

2. Any expression of displeasure; as, the frowns of Providence; the frowns of Fortune.