front, frount, frownt, frunt, frunte

& a. [Fr front =the forehead, from Lat. frontem (acc us. of frons ); Port. & Ital. fronte; Sp. frente.] IMG:content-0177.png:[blocks in formation] Po e ed the porch, and on the front above He fixed the fatal bough." Dryden: Virgil's Æneid , vi. 365. (4) The foremost or most advanced part. "A band of strong and sinewy bows Out of the army picked; the front of all the field." Drayton. Polyolbion , s. 22. (5) The van of an army. ""Twixt host and host but narrow space was left, A dreadful interval! and front to front Presented." Milton: P. L., vi. 105. (6) A position directly before the face of a person or the foremost part of a thing. "Placed him on the floor of the court in front of his mother."-Dickens: Pickwick Papers, ch. xxxiv. (7) A room in the front part of a house. "Mr. Bob Sawyer embellished one side of the fire in his first-floor front ." -Dickens : Pickwick Papers , ch. xxxii 2. Figuratively : (1) An appearance; a show in the face, especially of boldne "Yet the inhabitants showed a bold front ; and their courage was stimulated by their preachers." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. xiii. *(2) Impudence; shamele ne . (3) A set of false hair or curls worn by ladies. (4) A dickey for a shirt. (5) The foremost part, the beginning. "Philomel in summer's front doth sing." II. Technically : Shakesp.: Sonnet 102. IMG:content-0178.png:[blocks in formation] 1934 2. To stand or be situated with the face or front toward any object. "Nor doth its entrance front in vain To old Iona's holy fane." Scott: Lord of the Isles, iv. 10. front-age (age as Ig), s . [ Eng.front ; -age .] 1. The front part of a building or other structure. 2. The extent of the front of anything.