F RO 
feat at Marfton park, in-the adjoining parifh, and the coun- 
7 i3 embelitfhed with feveral handfom e manfions 3 in the vici- 
v. See Collinfon’s Hittory of Gomerietihive: 
ROMERIES, a town of ti in the department 
of “the Somme ; 7 miles $.W. of Poix 
FROMIGUERE, a town of France, in the depart- 
ment of the Eaft Pyrenees; 7 miles N. of Mont- 
QUIS. 
FROMISTA, a town of Spain, in the province of 
Leon ; 18 at of Palencia 
, Botany, (Frons, aleafy bough, ) isa kind of 
ftem which is x ie fame time a leaf, and bears the fructifi- 
cation, (See Cautts and Becca ation.) The term 
exclufively appropriated to plants of the clafs Cryptogamia: 
Sprengel, in his letters on Cryptogamous eee ae 
to have been aware of this, when he objects ufe, be- 
ees — ae of the other clafles bear ae yee on 
e leaf. Suchi os is the cafe in let Phyllanthus, 
ae ophylla, &e:s my n in Turnera, where the flower pro- 
ceeds on the i af- ital But thefe pans do not prove 
the impropriety of the term in Cryptogamous plants, to 
w bie alone it i now applied. | tribe, (fee Firicss, 
exainples of a frond, as each plant confilts 2 a 
‘talked leaf, bearing the fruCtification either on its 
or in fpikes or clufters, -which are evidently a sateen: 
fis of fome of its parts or lobes. Lichens alfo have a true 
frond, either in the form of acruft, a leathery leafy expan- 
dion, or a branched fhrubby fubftance, with each of which 
_ the fructification is intimately connected. Linnzus has er- 
xoneoufly ufed the term frons in the natural order of Palma, 
which, however lofty in their growth, have not the proper 
tae 
a 
ww ¢ 
em of a tree, but are genuine a ee plants, who fe 
ftalks or ftems, not their ae bez e fruttification, = 
g nel me pamia. This gre 
» that the ype fr 
are dic connecting link between Ferns and the Liliaceous 
er 
FRONDES. See Lea 
F RONDESCANT IA ‘de notes the feafon of the year 
when the leaves of plants are unfolded 
' FRONSAC, in Geography, a town ‘of Hanes in the de- 
partment of the Gironde, and chief place of a canton, in 
the diftri€&t of Libourne, feated on the Ille; - miles N. 
W. of Libourne. The place contains 13 30,8 d the canton 
23,348 inhabitants, on hs territory 0 - 5 Kliometres, in 22 
communes. fruitful tra@t at the junction e Ille 
and Dor ordogne, cppotite to Tiboune on which this ee is 
fituated, is called Fron 
FRONT, the rN or that part of the face above 
_ the eye-brow. 
The vont is formed of the Latin toes ; and that from 
the Greek Peover, to think, perceive; of Gen, mens, the mind, 
thought. Martinius, to make out this etymology, obferves, 
that from the forehead of a perfon we perceive what he is, 
what he is capable of, and what he thinks o aurens 
chufes to derive it from pile becaufe it bears the marks of 
Ww sol we in our 
is alfo ‘ated where feveral perfons, or things, 
are ar fide by fide, and thew their front, or fore- 
“FRONT, i in Architeure. The elevation of any of the exte- 
principal front, which is generally that cae which the 
FRO 
bu ilding i 1s entered ; and on this account is alfo called os en- 
trance Front e€ opp 
I 
flanks, which, in towns where the houfes join each other, 
are called a aber 
Front, in Fort ala sn See Face and Trnat 
Frost o a Regimen’, in Military Language, es the 
foremoft rank of a batta‘ion, {quadron, or any other body 
of men. 
To 
front every ey is when the men are faced to all 
See Fin oar aders 
Froxr o amp is the line that determines its extent, 
and in ees are placed the colours - andards of the 
troops that occupy the camp; whi 
Front, in Perfj chives a aoa a or oS 
of the face, or fore-part of an objeét, or of ‘that part 
directly oppofite to the eye; called alfo, and more ufually, 
orthography. 
Front, Tine of the. 
Front Scale. See Sca 
Front Royal, in ee phy, a town of America, iw 
Frederick county, Virginia, at the foot of the Blue Ridge, 
eight miles E. of Shenandoah river, and 20 miles S. of 
Winchefter. It contains about go houfes, a Prefbyteriar 
church, and another - Methodifts. A refpeCtable Ger- 
man fchool is s kept her 
RONTAL, in Arete a little fronton or pedi- 
ment, fometimes placed over a {mall door or window 
Froyt AL, Frontlet, or ‘Brvebands is alfo ufed in Speak 
ing. of the Jewith ceremor 
ei es 
Lol] 
wher eof is written fome a i" aera ; they are all iid 
on a piece of black calf’s leather, with thon 
he Jews apply 1 the leather with the eau on their for 
thongs. 
FRONTALE Os, in Anatomy. See O 
FRONTALE, or Frontal, in Medicine, 
of remedy, applied on oo toes and temples with a 
bandage, for the cure of the head-ache, megrim, vapours, 
s FRontr 
defluxions on the eyes, &c. Fron ae are — ofed of 
rofe aa = flowers, betory, marjoram, lavender, camphire, 
&c. wrapped in a linen aa and applied over the forchead 
There are eal frontals, in manner of liniments, made of 
unguentum es and extract of opium, or of pastes, 
powders, f¢ed 
In frontals applied t o eafe the violence of the head-ache, 
in the heights of fevers, they any mix the kernels of 
e 
NTALIS, in meee oa a name given to feveral part 
fituated about the frontal bone; as two gee = ni 
fubftance of the bone, a nerve, an artery, an 
FRONTANA, in ee Hed a town of Spain in " Cata- 
lonia ; 25 miles S. E. of Urg 
FRONTATED, a term uted by Botani/tsto exprefs that 
ae nae or en ae thal ‘grows ee nd broader, 
at la inates in a right lin in oppofition 
updated, wk eee that the ee terminate ‘in a 
FRO NTE, in Geography, a'town of France, in the 
department of the Po, on the Marlon; 11 miles N. of 
Turin. 
FRONTEAU, Jonny, in Biography, was born at Angers 
in the hse 1614, and was educated by a parifh prieft in that 
neighbourhood, by whofe inftructions he profiied fo well, 
that before “ was thirteen years of age he could, _ the 
tmolt 
ae) 
g. 
