frontispiece (front is pes)

[A perverted form, simulating picce, of * front i spice, The greatest difficultie 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. Nature, thou wert o'rseen to put so mean A frontispiece to such a building. frontle (frunt'les), a . [ The most prodigious and most frontle piece Of solid impudence. B. Jonson, Volpone, iv. 2. To dare do ill, and hope to bear it thus! Fletcher (and another ), Queen of Corinth, iii. 2. For vice, though frontle and of harden'd face, Is daunted at the sight of awful grace. IMG:content-1887.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1888.png:[blocks in formation] notch is eventually obliterated by the union of the fronto- nasal and maxillary proce es , externally. Huxley , Anat. Vert., p. 23. fronto-occipital (fronto-ok-sip'i-tal), a . front ( al ) + occipital .] Pertaining to the fore- head or frontal bone and the occiput: t: as, the fronto- occipital or anteroposterior axis. frontoparietal (fronto-pa-ri'e-tal), a. and n. tain i [ front ( al ) + parietal . I. a. 1. Of or per occasions freezing or the congelation of water; taining to the frontal and to the parietal bone: as, the frontoparietal suture. - 2. Consisting of or representing both a frontal and a parietal bone. The parietal may be one with the frontal, forming a fronto - parietal bone, as in the frog and Lepidosiren. Mivart, Elem. Anat., p. 100. II. n. A bone of the skull of Batrachia and some other low vertebrates, consisting of or representing both the frontal and the parietal bones of other animals. See cut under Anura . frontosphenoidal (fronto-sfe-noi'dal), a. [ front (al) + sphenoidal .] Pertaining to the fron- tal and to the sphenoid bone: as, the fronto- sphenoidal suture. frontosquamosal (frontō-squa-mō'sal), a . [ front ( al ) + squamosal.] Of or pertaining to the frontal and to the squamosal: as, the fronto- squamosal arch of some reptiles. frontwardst (frunt'wärdz), adv. [ front + -wards.] Toward the front; forward. Such as stode in ye hinder partes of the battailes were ordered to turn their faces from the frontwards. J. Brende, tr. of Quintus Curtius, fol. 90. frontwise (frunt'wiz), adv . [ front + -wise.] Toward the front; in the direction of the front. Though the faces are nearly always represented in pro- which continued in use even on the earlier vases of the next period, those with red figures on a black ground. Whan the i hadde souped the i cloded hem war me as the i myght, for the froste was grete, and the mone shone clere. Merlin (E. E. T. 8.), ii. 149. The third day comes a frost , a killing frost. Shak., Hen. VIII., iii. 2. The river was dumb and could not speak, For the frost's swift shuttles its shroud had spun. Lowell, Vision of Sir Launfal, ii. 203. 3. A covering of minute ice-needles formed from the atmosphere at night upon the ground and on exposed objects when they have cooled by radiation below the dew-point and the dew- point is below the freezing-point. Also called hoar frost, white frost , and rime . For soth, women have many lettes, And they be masked in many nettes: As frontlets , fyllets, partlet tes, etc. J. Heywood, Four Ps. In vain, poor Nymph, to please our youthful sight, You sleep in cream and frontlets all the night. Parnell, To an Old Beauty. var. of frow , q. v.] The handle of an auger. Nares . As you have seen A shipwright bore a naval beam; he oft Thrusts at the augur's froofe ; works still aloft; And at the shank help others. Chapman, Ody ey, ix. IMG:content-1889.png:[blocks in formation] His enemies had still the same power, and the same malice, and a froppish kind of insolence, that de- lighted to deprive him of any thing that pleased him, and manifestly pleased itself in vexing him. Clarendon, Life, III. 968. frore, froren (fror, frō'ren), a. [ froren , froren , pp. of freósan , freeze: see freezel . The pp. frozen , rare ME. frosen, is accom. to the pret. froze .] Frozen. [Obsolete or archaic.] We falleth so flour [as a flower) when hit is frore . Specimens of Lyric Poetry (ed. Wright), p. 25. Spenser, Shep. Cal., February. The parching air Burns frore , and cold performs the effect of fire. Milton , P. L., ii. 595. O rock-embosomed lawns and snow-fed streams, Now seen athwart frore vapours. frontomalar (fron-to-mā'lär), a. [ front ( al ) + malar .] Pertaining to the frontal and to the malar bone: as, the frontomalar suture. Shelley, Pro me the us Unbound, i. 1. frontomaxillary (fron-to-mak'si-lā-ri), a. [ a . [Irreg. IMG:content-1890.png:[blocks in formation] of Chick, seventh day of incubation. k , fronto- nasal proce ; 1a, cer- 1, 2, first and second visceral arches; x, re- mains of first visceral IMG:content-1891.png:[blocks in formation] frosk (frosk), n . [E. dial. (also a ibilated form frosh , q. v.), frosk (with term. -sk , in such words due to Scand. influence); froskr = AS. frox (for frosc ), a frog: see frog1 .] A frog. Polheuedes [poll heads, tadpoles] and froskes and podes [paddocks] spile Bond harde Egipte folc. frost (frost), n. [ frost , forst , forst (transposed from the rare frost ) = OS. frost = OFries. forst = D. vorst = MLG. vrost = OHG. frost , MHG. vrost , G. frost = Icel. Sw. Dan. 3. To sharpen the front and hind parts of (a horse's shoes): also applied elliptically to the horse itself. It is done to enable the horse to travel on ice or frozen roads. Borrowed two horses of Mr. Howell and his friend, and with much ado set out, after my horses being frosted , which I know not what it means to this day. Pepys , Diary, II. 327. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary IMG:content-1893.png:[blocks in formation]