front 
What force can// 1 ^^, or who incounter can 
An armed Faulcon, or a flying Miin '.' 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Dei-ay. 
Thy virtue met and fronted every peril. 
B. Jonxoii, .Sejanus, iii. 1. 
We are amaz'd, 
Not at your eloquence, but impudence, 
That dare thus/r<m< us. 
Fletcher (and another), Queen of Corinth, iv. 3. 
I shall front thee, like some staring ghost, 
With all my wrongs about me. 
Dryden, Don Sebastian. 
3. To stand in front of, or opposed or opposite 
to, or over against ; face. 
A gate of steel 
Fronting the sun. Shak., T. and C. , iii. 3. 
Hence doth stretch into the Sea the faire head land 
Tragabigzanda, now called Cape An, fronted with the 
three lies wee called the three Turkes head. 
Capt. John Smith, Works, II. 193. 
A very elegant monument . . . immediately/rtmfed the 
family pew. Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, p. 153. 
4. To supply with a front; furnish or adorn in 
front : as, to front a house with granite. 
On high hills top I saw a stately frame, 
An hundred cubits high by just assize, 
With hundreth pillourb//wi(m ( / faire the same. 
Spenser, Visions of Bellay, st. 2. 
The casements lin'd with creeping herbs, 
The prouder sashes fronted with a range 
Of orange, myrtle. Cowper, Task, iv. 763. 
II. intrans. 1. To have the face or front to- 
ward sorne point of the compass or some ob- 
ject ; be in a confronting or opposed position. 
O, with what wings shall his affections fly 
Towards//^(m<7 peril and oppos'd decay ! 
Shak., 2 Hen. IV., Iv. 4. 
And eastward fronts the statue. 
Tennyson, Holy Grail. 
Philip's dwelling/runted on the street. 
Tennyson, Enoch Arden. 
2f. To stand foremost. 
I know but of a single part, in aught 
Pertains to the state ; and front but in that file 
Where others tell steps with me. 
Shak., Hen. VIII., i. 2. 
3f. To stand or go in opposition ; go counter. 
He knew hym full lyuely by colore of his armys, 
And/run< euyn to the freke with a fell spere, 
Hurlet hym to hard vrthe vndur horse fete. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 6610. 
frontadiform (fron-tad'i-fdrm), a. [<L. frons 
(front-), front, + ad, to (see -ad 3 ), + forma, 
form.] In ichth., having that form, as a fish, 
in which the body is extended in the direction 
of the forehead, as is exemplified in the genus 
Patacus: a term correlated with nuchadiform 
and dorsadiform. Gill. 
frontage (frun'taj), M. [<fron t+-aye.] 1. Ex- 
tent of front ; the fronting part, as of a build- 
ing, an inclosure, or a tract of land. 
The pile of dingy buildings rearing its frontaye high 
into the night. K. L. Steeenson, The Dynamiter, p. 93. 
Each farm extends its narrow frontage generally 
about 200 yards wide down across these meadows to 
low-water mark. Harper's Mag., LXXVII. 820. 
2f. That which constitutes a front; a front 
piece, as in a former style of female head-dress. 
See the extract. 
Monsieur Paradin says, "That these old-fashioned fron- 
tages rose an ell above the head ; that they were pointed 
like steeples, and had long loose pieces of crape fastened 
to the tops of them, which are curiously fringed, and hang 
down their backs like streamers." 
Addison, The Head-dress. 
frontager (frun'ta-jer), . 1. One who lives 
on the frontier or border; a borderer: as, the 
northern frontagers of China. 2. In law, one 
who owns land fronting on a road, shore, or 
stream ; an abutting owner. 
frontal (fron'tal), a. and n. [I. a. = P. Sp. Pg. 
frontal = It.j'rontale, < L. *frontalis (only in 
derived noun), < frons (front-), front: see front. 
H. n. ME. fruntelle, frountel, < OF. frontel, 
frontlet, < ML./rontafe, also frontalis (and fron- 
tellmn, prop, dim.), an ornament for the fore- 
head, a frontlet, L. only in pi. frontalia, a front- 
let (of horses) ; prop. adj.: seel.] I. a. 1. Being 
in front. London. 2. Of or pertaining to the 
forehead or frons, or to the bone of the fore- 
head: as, the frontal crest of a bird; frontal 
platesof a reptile Frontal angle. See craniometry. 
Frontal artery, one of the terminal branches of the 
ophthalmic artery, ramifying upon the forehead. Fron- 
tal bone. See frontal, n., '. Frontal crest. Seecresf. 
Frontal eminence, the most protuberant part of the 
frontal bom-, on each side, above the supraciliary ridges. 
Frontal lobe of the brain. See gyms, sulcui. 
Frontal lobe of the carapace of a brachyurous crus- 
tacean, the anterior median ilivisi. HI. Frontal nerve, 
one of the terminal branches of the ophthalmic or first 
division of the fifth nerve. --Frontal Orbit, in entom., 
that part of the bonier of the orbit of the eye that forms 
the lateral margin of the front. Frontal plane, frontal 
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section, in anat., a plane or section at right angles to a 
sagittal plane, and parallel to the axis of the trunk. 
Frontal points, in oriiith., same as antice. Frontal 
proboscis, in Turbellarut. See extract and cut under 
Itlialtdortrla, and cuts under Rhynchoctxla and Proctucha. 
Frontal ridges, projecting parts of the sides of the 
front, below the eyes, under which the antenna} are in- 
serted in certain Coleoptera. Frontal shield, in ornith., 
an extension and expansion of the bill upon the forehead, 
forming a horny protuberance; a casque; a galea. 
Frontal sinus, an excavation in the frontal bone, usually 
communicating with the nasal cavity. See cut under era- 
niofacial. Frontal suture. () In anat. . the temporary 
suture between the right and left frontal bones, or oppo- 
site halves of the frontal bone, (b) In entom. Seeclypeal 
suture, under clupeal. Minimum frontal line. See 
craniometry. 
II. n. 1. Something worn on the forehead or 
face ; a frontlet, (a) An ornamental band for the hair. 
(6) Any defensive contrivance, as a nasal or vizor, (c) That 
part of the harness or caparison of a horse which covers 
the forehead. [In all these senses used loosely without pre- 
cise meaning.] 
They arme their horses top ; about his legges they tie 
bootes, and cover his head with frontal* of steele. 
Underdoivn, tr. of Heliodorns, sig. Q 6. 
2f. Something that comes or is situated in front; 
a front piece or part, as (formerly) the valance 
of a bed. 
A nether frontale of the Samyne bed. 
Inventories, an. 1542, p. 92. 
Specifically 3. In her. : (a) The front of any- 
thing, as of a helmet or a cap. (b) The fore- 
head, as of a human head, used as a bearing. 
4. In arch., a little pediment or frontispiece 
over a small door or window. 5. Eecles.; (a) 
A movable cover or hanging for the front of an 
altar. Frontals are of silk, satin, damask, or other ma- 
terial, and are made of different colors for the different 
festivals and seasons of the church year. Sometimes they 
cover not only the front but the ends of the altar ; this was 
usual in the middle ages. Over the upper part of the frontal 
falisanothershorterhanging.alsoreachingthe whole width 
of the altar, and along the ends. This is now commonly 
called the superfrontal (formerly the frontel or frontlet), 
and is attached to one of the three linen cloths on the 
mensa or to the frontal, concealing the edge of the altar. 
Also called front, and by the Latin names antependium, 
palla, and pallium. 
An altar-cloth, with & frontel, for the great feast-days. 
English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 233. 
(b) In England, in the middle ages, also a mov- 
able cover of wood or precious metal for the 
front of the altar. Such a frontal was some- 
times called a table (also tabula, tablementum). 
At the more solemn festivals, the high altar, in the 
richer churches, was sheathed in a gold or silver frontal 
studded with precious stones, while in the less wealthy 
ones it was gracefully shrouded in the folds of a costly 
silken pall. Rock, Church of our Fathers, i. 233. 
6f. In med., a medicament or preparation to be 
applied to the forehead. 
But if it be an old and inveterat paine of the head, then 
would there &frontale be made of the said juice, tempered 
with barley floure and vinegre. 
Holland, tr. of Pliny, xx. 13. 
7. In anat. and zool., the frontal bone; the bone 
of the forehead. In its primitive state it consists of 
a pair of bones, being developed from lateral paired cen- 
ters of ossification in the membranous cranium. It at- 
tains great comparative size in birds. See cuts under 
Anura, Balcenidce, Crocodilia, Cyclodus, Gallince, para- 
sphenoid, and skull. 
frqntate, frontated (fron'tat, -ta-ted), a. [< L. 
"frontatus, only in pi. frontati, binding-stones, 
that show on both sides of the wall, < frons 
{front-), front: see front.'] 1. In bot., grow- 
ing broader and broader, as a leaf. 2. la. zool., 
having a large or prominent frons or forehead. 
fronted (frun'ted), a. [< front + -ed%.] Having 
a front ; formed with a front. 
Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal 
With rapid wheels, or fronted brigads form. 
Milton, P. L., II. S32. 
frontelt, n. See frontal, 5 (a). 
frontert, [ME.: see frontier.] Front; fore 
side; border: an earlier form of frontier. 
frontert, v. i. [(fronter, n.] To border. 
The countrey . . . called Suer, very rich in gold and 
siluer most abundant in cattle,/r<m(erm<7 vpon the coun- 
trie of the Damascenes. Hakluyt's Voyages, II. 15. 
frontes, n. Plural of frons. 
frontier (fron'ter or fron-ter'), n. and a. [Cf. 
ME. frounter, front, fore side ; < OF. frontiere, 
the frontier, border o* a country, F. frontiere 
= Sp. frontera = Pg. fronteira = It. frontiera, 
frontier, cf. Pr. fronteira, the forehead, < ML. 
fronteria, prop, frontaria, frontier, < L. frons 
(front-), front: see front.'] I. n. 1. That part 
of a country which fronts or faces another coun- 
try; the confines or extreme part of a country 
bordering on another country; the marches; 
the border. 
Goes it against the main of Poland, sir, 
Or for some frontier/ Shak., Hamlet, iv. 4. 
frontispiece 
To maintain the frontiers of the Rhine and the Danube 
was, from the first century to the fifth, the great object of 
Rome's European policy and warfare. 
E. A. Freeman, Amer. LectB., p. 107. 
The line of Guthrum's Frith was now, therefore, aban- 
doned, and Edward's frontier led from the sea along the 
valley of the Chelm, straight westward to Hertford, and 
thence along the brink of the Thames valley. 
J. Ji. Ureen, Conq. of Eng., p. 190. 
2. That part of a country which forms the bor- 
der of its settled or inhabited regions : as (be- 
fore the settlement of the Pacific coast), the 
western fron tier of the United States. 
His nephew, after a night of sleepless thinking, had an- 
nounced to his uncle his intention of mounting his horse 
and riding out in search of a field of labor farther out 
upon the frontier. W. M. Baker, New Timothy, p. 187. 
3f. A fort ; a fortification. 
Thou hast talk'd 
Of palisadoes, frontiers, parapets. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., ii. 3. 
4f. The front or bordering part of anything, as 
the forehead. 
Then on the edges of their bolster'd hair, which stand- 
eth crested round their frontiers, and hangeth over their 
faces. Stubbes, Anat. of Abuses. 
5f. Antagonistic or insolent bearing or aspect. 
[The sense of the word in the following passage is dis- 
puted. 
Worcester, get thee gone ; for I do see 
Danger and disobedience in thine eye : 
O, sir ! your presence is too bold and peremptory, 
And majesty might never yet endure 
The nwoily frontier of a servant brow. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., I. 3.) 
= Syn. 1. Border, Confine, etc. See boundary. 
il. a. 1 . Of or pertaining to a frontier ; ly- 
ing on the border or exterior part ; bordering : 
as, & frontier town. 
Then he wrote to Sir Bertram of Clesquy, desyring him 
and his Bretons to kepe fronter warr with the Kyng of 
Nauer. Berners, tr. of Froissart's Chron., I. ccxix. 
Although he [Louis XIV.) recognised the right of the 
Dutch to garrison the frontier towns, he prescribed limits 
for their barrier wholly different from those which had 
been guaranteed by England in the treaty of 1709. 
Lecky, Eng. in 18th Cent, i. 
2f. Fronting ; opposite. 
With readie minds and active bodies they breake through 
the frontier bankes over against them, whiles the enemies 
were amused on the fires that our men made. 
Holland, tr. of Ammiamts, p. 106. 
frontier! (fron'ter or fron-ter'), r. [< frontier, 
n."] I. intrans. To form or constitute a fron- 
tier; possess territories bordering on or con- 
stituting a frontier: with on or upon. 
II. trans. To place on the frontier ; border. 
It is no more a border, norfrontyerd with enemyes. 
Spenser, State of Ireland. 
frontierman (fron'ter- or fron-ter'man), . ; 
pi. frontiermen (-men). Same as frontiersman. 
Moody frontiermen slouch alongside, rifle on shoulder. 
T. Roosevelt, The Century, XXXV. 500. 
frontiersman (fron'terz- or fron-terz'man), .; 
pi. frontiersmen (-men). One" who settles on 
the frontier or borders of a country, or beyond 
the limits of a settled or civilized region. 
We will give them a blow that I pledge the good name 
of an old frontiersman shall make their line bend like an 
ashen bow. J. F. Cooper, Last of Mohicans, xxxi. 
A large majority of men . . . never come to the rough 
experiences that make the Indian, the soldier, or the fron- 
tiersman self-subsistent and fearless. Emerson, Courage. 
Frontignan (F. pron. fron-te-nyon'), w. [Also 
written Frontiniac, altered, appar. in imita- 
tion of Cognac, from the proper form, F. Frtm- 
tignan.'] A sweet muscat wine made at Fron- 
tignan in the department of He>ault, France. 
frontingly (frun'ting-li), adv. In a manner so 
as to front ; in a facing position ; opposingly. 
Imp. Diet. 
Frontiniac ffron-te-nyak'), n. Same as Fronti- 
gnan. 
Frontirostria (fron-ti-ros'tri-jl), n. pi. [NL., < 
Ii. fronts (front-), forehead, front, 4- rostrum, a 
beak.] A name given by Zetterstedt and some 
other European entomologists to the Heterofi- 
tera. 
frontispiece (fron'tis-pes), . [A perverted 
form, simulating piece, of *frontis/>ice, < OF. 
frontispice, the frontispiece, or front of ahouse, 
F.frontispice = Sp. Pg. frontispieio = It.fronti- 
spizio,< 'Mli.frontispiciitm, a beginning, the front 
of a church, lit. 'front view,' < L. frons (front-), 
the front, + specere, view, look at : see species, 
spectacle, spy.] That which is seen in front, or 
which directly presents itself to the eye. (a) in 
arch., the principal face of a building, particularly when it 
constitutes, as it were, an ornamental mask orscreen, with- 
out architectural connection with the building behind it. 
The greatest difflcultie in this kind of worke was about 
the verie frontispiece and maine lintle-tree which lay over 
the jambes or cheeks of the great door of the said temple. 
Holland, tr. of Pliny, xxxvi. 14. 
