frown (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. contractio (with some explanatory word)2. vultus, ūs, m. (lit. a look; but often denoting an angry frowning look, even without an adj.)3. frons adducta • frown (subs.): 1. contractio (with some explanatory word): there was such gravity in his eye, such a (solemn) f., on his brow, tanta erat gravitas in oculo, tanta c. frontis, Cic. Sext. 8, 19: from a relaxing or a contracting of the brow, i. e. a f., ex superciliorum aut remissione aut c., Cic. Off. 1, 41, 146. 2. vultus, ūs, m. (lit. a look; but often denoting an angry frowning look, even without an adj.): the f. of the threatening tyrant, v. instantis tyranni, Hor. Od. 3, 3, 3: comp. id. Sat. 1, 6, 121. 3. frons adducta: comp. Sen. Ben. 1, 1, 5: v. to frown.