Frondist (frondist)

A member or supporter of the Fronde. frondlet (frond'let), п. [ manner. Thallus frondosely dilated. Encyc. Brit., XIV. 561. frondous (fron'dus), a. [L. frondosus : see frondose.] Same as frondose . frons (fronz), n.; pl. frontes (frontēz). [L., the forehead, brow, front: see front .] The forehead. Technically - (a) In mammal ., that part of the skull which lies between the orbits of the eyes and the fore border of the vertex. (6) In ornith ., that part of the head which slopes upward from the bill to the vertex. (c) In conch ,, that part of a univalve shell presenting when the aperture is toward the observer. (d) In entom . , generally, the anterior part of the epicranium, or upper part of the head, immediately back of the epistoma or clypeus when this is present. The term is somewhat loosely used, and varies in its application with different orders. In Hyme noptera, Lepidoptera , and Neuroptera the frons lies in front of the antennæ, and partly between the eyes; but in Coleoptera and Hemipter a the antennæ are often inserted at the sides of the frons, which is then divided by a more or le imaginary line from the vertex or crown. In the Diptera the frons is the part above the antennæ, the part below them being called the face . - Frons alt a, a high forehead: a phrase used to signify that the forehead is more than one third of the total length of the face.-Frons brevis, a low forehead: a phrase used to signify that the forehead is le than one third of the total length of the face. Frons proportion at a, a proportionate forehead: a phrase signifying that the forehead is one third of the total length of the face. front (frunt), n. and a. [ Thei (giants] ben hidouse for to loke upon; and the i han but on eye, and that is in the myddylle of the Front . Mandeville , Travels, p. 203. See what a grace was seated on his brow: Hyper i on's curls, the front of Jove himself. Shak., Hamlet, iii. 4. They found the stately horse, and she Ki 'd the white star upon his noble front . Tennyson, Geraint. 2. The forehead or face as expre ive of character, temper, or disposition; characteristic facial appearance. Norton, from Daniel and Ostrœa sprung, Ble 'd with his father's front and mother's tongue, Hung silent down his never-blushing head. Pope , Dunciad, ii. 416. IMG:content-1883.png:[blocks in formation] the face or that part of anything which is regarded as the face; position in or toward that part to which one's view or course is directed: used chiefly in the phrases in front and in front of: as, right in front of them stood a lion. Cannon in front of them Volley'd and thunder'd. Tennyson, Charge of the Light Brigade. Specifically, in a theater and the like-(a) The part nearest the stage or platform: as, to occupy seats in front. The seats in front were reserved for the friends of the girl who was about to leave them. C. E. Norton, Travel and Study in Italy, p. 44. (b) The part before the actors or speakers; the auditorium: as, the stage manager was in front (that is, not on the stage, but in the auditorium). Charles Mathews, who was in front , went behind and said, "Buck stone, you push this piece." Lester Wallack , Memories. 6. A sort of half-wig worn by women with a cap or bonnet, to cover only the front part of the head: distinctively called a false front. "Have I lived to this day to be called a fright!" cried Mi Knag, suddenly becoming convulsive, and making an effort to tear her front off. Dickens, Nicholas Nickle by, xviii. To look out on the week-day world from under a crisp and glo y front would be to introduce a most dreamlike and unpleasant confusion between the sacred and the secular. George Eliot , Mill on the Flo , i. 7. The Graces wear fronts, the Muse thins to a spinster. Lowell, In the Half-Way House. 7. Same as shirt - front and dicky2, 3.-8. One of the surfaces of a diatom frustule marked by the line of juncture of the two valves, as distinguished from the side, which is the surface formed of a single valve.-9. Eccles., same as frontal, 5 ( a ). A front for the autar of red and green saten of Bruges. Quoted in Archæologia, XXXVIII. 362. Bastioned front ( mil it.), two half-bastions and a curtain. -False front, a front, in sense 6.- Front-cut mower. See mower. Front of a wave. See wave - front.- In front of. See def. 5.- Open front, the arrangement of a blast-furnace having a fore hearth. - The front ( mil it.), the most advanced position; the place where active operations are carried on; hence, figuratively, the most advanced position in any enterprise, pursuit, system of thought, etc. IMG:content-1884.png:[blocks in formation] The height of my ambition was to go to the front after a battle. L. M. Alcott , Hospital Sketches, p. 90. To come to the front, to come to the foremost or most conspicuous place; attain distinction. Writers in France who have really the stuff of the romancer in them come to the front and to fame more quickly than in England. Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XL. 34. The theologians were a body of men whose functions had been to some extent usurped by the canonists, and who now for some years, under Tudor and Puritan and Laudian influences, were to come to the front. Stubbs , Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 320. II. a . 1. Relating to the front or face; frontal.-2. Having a position in the front; foremost: as, the front steps. She glares in balls, front boxes, and the Ring, A vain, unquiet, glitt ring, wretched thing! Pope, Epistle to Mi Blount. The rear ranks of the English kept the front ranks supplied with a constant succe ion of loaded muskets. Macaulay , Lord Clive. Front bench. See bench . - Front center. See center1, 5. Front door, the main entrance-door of a house. The front - door is on the street. Some keep it always open; some keep it latched; some, locked; some, bolted - with a chain that will let you peep in, but not get in; and some nail it up, so that nothing can pa its threshold. This front -door leads into a pa age, which opens into an ante-room, and this into the interior apartments. O. W. Holmes, Autocrat, vi. Front face ( mil it .), that side of a hollow square of troops, or of a camp, which lies toward the enemy. They rushed on to the camp, breaking through the front face , and killing a number of men as they pa ed over them. E. Sartorius , In the Soudan, p. 55. front (frunt), v. [ front , n. Cf. affront, con front .] I. trans. 1. To meet face to face; come into the presence of; confront. And Enid, but to please her husband's eye, Who first had found and loved her in a state Of broken fortunes, daily fronted him In some fresh splendour. Tennyson, Geraint. When we front its ma of homilies and scriptural versions and saints' lives and grammar and le on-books, they tell us of a clergy quickened to a new desire for knowledge, and of a like quickening of educational zeal among the people at large. J. R. Green, Conq. of Eng., p. 285. 2. To oppose face to face; oppose directly: encounter. front What force can front , or who in counter can An armed Faulcon, or a flying Man? Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Decay. Thy virtue met and fronted every peril. B. Jonson, Sejanus, iii. 1. We are amaz'd, Not at your eloquence, but impudence, That dare thus front 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 Iles wee called the three Turkes head. Capt. John Smith , Works, II. 193. A very elegant monument immediately fronted the family pew. Jane Austen , North anger 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 a ize, With hundreth pillours fronting 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. in trans. 1. To have the face or front to ward some point of the compa or some object; be in a confronting or opposed position. O, with what wings shall his affections fly Towards fronting peril and oppos'd decay! Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iv. 4. IMG:content-1885.png:[blocks in formation] 3t. To stand or go in opposition; go counter. He knew hym full lyuely by colore of his armys, And frunt 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.