Part 4603

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<hw>Frons</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L., <ets>front</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Anal.)</fld> <def>The forehead; the part of the cranium between the orbits and the vertex.</def>

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<hw>Front</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>frant</ets> forehead, L. <ets>frons</ets>, <ets>frontis</ets>; perh. akin to E. <ets>brow</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.</def>

<blockquote>Bless'd with his father's <b>front</b>, his mother's tongue. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled <b>front</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>His <b>front</b> yet threatens, and his frowns command. <i>Prior.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The forehead, countenance, or personal presence, as expressive of character or temper, and especially, of boldness of disposition, sometimes of impudence; seeming; <as>as, a bold <ex>front</ex>; a hardened <ex>front.</ex></as></def>

<blockquote>With smiling <b>fronts</b> encountering. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The inhabitants showed a bold <b>front</b>. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The part or surface of anything which seems to look out, or to be directed forward; the fore or forward part; the foremost rank; the van; -- the opposite to back or rear; <as>as, the <ex>front</ex> of a house; the <ex>front</ex> of an army</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Had he his hurts before? Ay, on the <b>front</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A position directly before the face of a person, or before the foremost part of a thing; <as>as, in <ex>front</ex> of un person, of the troops, or of a house</as>.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>The most conspicuous part.</def>

<blockquote>The very head and <b>front</b> of my offending. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.</def>

<blockquote>Like any plain Miss Smith's, who wears s front. <i>Mrs. Browning.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>The beginning.</def> "Summer's <i>front</i>."

<i>Shak.</i>

<cs><col>Bastioned front</col> <fld>(Mil.)</fld>, <cd>a curtain connerting two half bastions.</cd> -- <col>Front door</col>, <cd>the door in the front wall of a building, usually the principal entrance.</cd> -- <col>Front of fortification</col>, <cd>the works constructed upon any one side of a polygon.</cd> <i>Farrow</i>. -- <col>Front of operations</col>, <cd>all that part of the field of operations in front of the successive positions occupied by the army as it moves forward.</cd> <i>Farrow</i>. -- <col>To come to the front</col>, <cd>to attain prominence or leadership.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Front</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or relating to the front or forward part; having a position in front; foremost; <as>as, a <ex>front</ex> view</as>.</def>

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<hw>Front</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Fronted</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Fronting</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To oppose face to face; to oppose directly; to meet in a hostile manner.</def>

<blockquote>You four shall <b>front</b> them in the narrow lane. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To appear before; to meet.</def>

<blockquote> daily <b>fronted</b> him In some fresh splendor. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To face toward; to have the front toward; to confront; <as>as, the house <ex>fronts</ex> the street</as>.</def>