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||Fron`ti*gnac" (?), Fron`ti`gnan" (&?;), n. [So called from ||Frontignan, a town in Southern France.] 1. A sweet muscadine wine ||made in Frontignan (Languedoc), France.

2. (Bot.) A grape of many varieties and colors.

Front"ing*ly (?), adv. In a fronting or facing position; opposingly.

Fron`tin*iac" (?), n. See Frontignac.

Fron"tis*piece (?), n. [F. frontispice, LL. frontispicium beginning, front of a church, fr. L. frons front + spicere, specere, to look at, view: cf. It. frontispizio. See Front and Spy.] The part which first meets the eye; as: (a) (Arch.) The principal front of a building. [Obs. or R.] (b) An ornamental figure or illustration fronting the first page, or titlepage, of a book; formerly, the titlepage itself.

Front"less (?), a. Without face or front; shameless; not diffident; impudent. [Obs.] "Frontless vice." Dryden. "Frontless flattery." Pope.

Front"less*ly, adv. Shamelessly; impudently. [Obs.]

Front"let (?), n. [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. (Zoˆl.) The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles.

Fron"to- (?). [L. frons, frontis, the forehead.] (Anat.) A combining form signifying relating to the forehead or the frontal bone; as, fronto-parietal, relating to the frontal and the parietal bones; fronto-nasal, etc.

||Fron`ton" (?), n. [F., a pediment. See Front.] (Arch.) Same as ||Frontal, 2.

Frop"pish (?), a. [Cf. Frap, Frape.] Peevish; froward. [Obs.] Clarendon.

Frore (?), adv. [See Frorn.] Frostily. [Obs.]

The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.

Milton.

Frorn (?), p. a. [AS. froren, p. p. of freÛsun to freeze. See Freeze.] Frozen. [Obs.]

Well nigh frorn I feel.

Spenser.

Fro"ry (?), a. [AS. freÛrig. See Frorn.] 1. Frozen; stiff with cold. [Obs.] Spenser.

2. Covered with a froth like hoarfrost. [Archaic]

The foaming steed with frory bit to steer.

Fairfax.

Frost (frst; 115), n. [OE. frost, forst, AS. forst, frost. fr. freÛsan to freeze; akin to D. varst, G., OHG., Icel., Dan., & Sw. frost. √18. See Freeze, v. i.] 1. The act of freezing; -- applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids.