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every coat we wear:—Tlie' Englifh fleece is forted, and 
the fhort and fine mixed with the Spanilh.- It is then 
carried to the dye-Iioufe, and when cleanfed from its im- 
■[iiii ities, (by fcoitring it in a furnace of hot water,) dyed, 
and returned to the manufacturer; afterwards Icribbled, 
carded, and fpiin into yarn by machinery ; twilled, woven 
in the loom; burled, by nippingoff its knots and burs ; 
milled by the fuller, dubbed with cards of teazle, (Iretch- 
cd on the tenter hooks, drelfed, (beared, prelfed between 
Iteated planks and prefs paper, and then packed for the 
markets. 
From a late fiirvey, this town, including hamlets, was 
found to contain in aH, 1684 families, and 8105 inhabi- 
tants. The woodlands around the church arc now the 
only part of the ancient forefl of Selwood, which bears 
any refeinblance to its former (late ; and have been within 
the memory of man the notorious afylum of a defperate 
clan of banditti, whofe depredations were a terror to the 
furrounding parifhes. One of their practices, and which 
perhaps was far from being the worft, was that of coining 
money ; but the cutting down large tradis of woods, efta- 
blithing fmall farms, and building ike church, were the 
means of deflroying their haunts, and obliging the pof- 
felfors to feek fubfirtence in honeft and ufefu! labour. 
The. church here mentioned is faid to have been ereCled 
by lord Weymouth, in 1712. 
FROM'ERIES, a town of France, in the department 
of the Somme; feven miles fouth-weft of Poix. 
FROMIGUE'RE, a town of France, in the department 
of the Eafl Pyrenees, and chief place of a canton, in the 
difiricl of Prades: feven miles north of Montlouis. 
FROMIS'FA, a town of Spain, in the province of 
Leon: eighteen_iiiiles north of Palencia. 
FROM'WARD, prep, [pjram and peajib, Sax.^ 
Away from ; the contrary to the word towards. Not now 
in ufe. —The horizontal needle is continually varying to¬ 
wards eaft and weft; and fo the dipping or inclining nee¬ 
dle is varying up and down, towards or fromwards the ze. 
nith. Ckeyne. 
FROND, f. \_frons, Lat. from (S^vu, pullulo, to germi¬ 
nate or bud.] In botany, a term applied by Linnaus to 
the peculiar leafing of palms and ferns. He defines it to 
be a kind of trunk or Item, which has the branch united 
with the leaf, and frequently with the fruffification. See 
Botany, vol. iii. 
F ROND A''TION, y. [from the Lat. y-enr, the leaf of 
a tree.] The act of (tripping oft' the leaves. Scott. Net 
much ujed. 
FROND'ATED, Having leaves; bearing leaves. 
FRON'DENBERG, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Weftphalia, and county of Marck : two miles weft of 
Unna. 
FRON'DENT, adj. {frondeo, Lat. to bear leaves.] 
Bearing leaves. 
FRONDESCEN'TI A, y In botany, the leafing feafon, 
or time of the year when plants firft unfold their leaves. 
FRONDl'FEROUS, adj. \_JrondiJer, Lat.] Bearing 
frond-leaves. 
FROND'OSE, adj. [frens, Lat. a leaf.] In botany; 
full of leaves ; bearing leaves. 
FRONDO SENESS, f. Plenty of leaves; full of 
leaves. Scott. Not much uj'ed. 
FRONDOS'ITY, J. The quality of having leaves; 
the leafy part of a plant. Scott. Not much ufed. 
VRONS,y. [from fero, Lat. to bear, becaufe the in¬ 
dications of the mind.are borne upon it; or from tp^oUi', 
Gr. thought, it being the feat of thought.] In anatomy, 
the fore part of the head; the frontal, or forehead. 
Linnaeus, in his botanical fyftem, applies this term to the 
leaves of all the genera of plants in the order crypto- 
gamia, becaufe, from the frond alone, all the other parts 
®f the plant, with its frudlification, are fucceflively 
evolved and put forth. See Botany, vol.iii. p. 279, 
under Cryptogamia. 
FRON'SAC, a town of France-, in the department of 
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the Gironde, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift of 
Libourne, on the Ille: two miles north-weft of Libourne. 
FRONT, y ^jrons, Lat. front, Fr.] The face.—His 
front yet threatens, and his frowns command. Prior. 
The patriot virtues that diftend thy thought. 
Spread on thy front, and in thy bofom glo-w. Thomfon. 
Tlie face, in a fenfe of cenfure or did ike : as, a hardened 
front ; a fierce front. This is the ulual fenfe : 
That dar’ft, though grim and terrible, advance 
Thy mis-created jfront athwart my way. Milton. 
The face as oppofed to an enemy : 
His forward hand, inur’d to wounds, makes way 
Upon the lharpeft fronts of the moft fierce. Daniel. 
The part or place oppofed to the face.—The accefs of 
the town was only by a neck of land : our men had ftiot 
that thundered upon them from therampier in front, and 
from the gallies that lay at lea in flank. Bacon. —The van 
of an army : 
’Twixt hoft and hoft but narrow fpace was left, 
A dreadful interval I and front to front 
Prefented, flood in terrible array. Milton. 
The forepart of anything, as of a building.—Patladius 
advifeth the front of his edifice fhould fo refpedb the 
foulli, that in its firft angle it receive the rifing rays of the 
winter fun, and decline a little from the winter fetting 
thereof. Brown. 
T)ie prince approach’d the door, 
Poffefs’d the porch, and on the front above 
He fix’d the fatal bough. Dryden. 
The moft confpicuous part or particular : 
The very head and front of my offending 
Hath this extent, no more. Skakefpeare. 
To FRONT, V. a. To oppofe direftly, or face to face ; 
to encounter.—You four fiiall front them in the narrow 
lane; we will walk lower: if they ’fcape from your en¬ 
counter, then they light on us. Skakefpeare. 
I (hall front thee, like fome (taring ghoft, 
With all my wrongs about me. Dryden. 
To (land oppofed or overagainft any place or thing.—The 
fquare will be one of the molt beautiful in Italy when this 
(tatue is eredted, and a town lioule built at one end to 
front the church that (lands at the other. Addifon, 
To FRONT, V. n. To (land foremoft : 
I front but in that file, 
Where others tell fieps witit me. Skakefpeare. 
FRONT'AL, /. \_frontale, 'Lit. frontal, Fr.] Any ex-, 
ternal form of medicine to be applied to the forehead, ge. 
nerally com))ofed amongft the ancients of coolers and liy p- 
notics.—-The torpedo, alive, ftupifies at a diftance ; but 
after death produceth no fuch eft'edt; which had they re¬ 
tained, they might have fupplied opium, and ferved as 
fontales in phrenfies. Brown. —The face part of a bridle. 
In architedlure, a Jronton, a pediment. 
FRONT'AL, adj. Belonging to the bone of the fore, 
head. 
FRONT'ALE,/. With phyficians, an external medi- 
cine applied to the forehead ; one of the mufcles of the 
forehead. r 
FRONTA'N.'\, a town of Spain, in the province of 
Catalonia ; twenty-five m.iles (outh-eall of Urgel, 
FRON'TATED, adj. [from frons, Lat.] In botany, 
the frentated leaf of a flower grows broader and broader, 
and at laft perhaps terminates'in a right line: ufed in op- 
politlon to cufpated, which is, when the leaves of a flow¬ 
er end in a point. Quincy. 
FRONT'BOX, f. The box in the playhoufe from 
which there is a diredt view to the ftage : 
How vain are all thefe glories, all our pains, 
Unlefs good fenfe preferve what beauty gains 1 
That 
