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FRONT, n. [L. frons, frontis; Gr. the nose.]

1. Properly, the forehead, or part of the face above the eyes; hence, the whole face.

His front yet threatens, and his frowns command.

2. The forehead or face, as expressive of the temper or disposition; as a fold front, equivalent to boldness or impudence. So a hardened front is shamelessness.

3. The forepart of any thing; as the front of a house, the principal face or side.

4. The forepart or van of an army or a body of troops.

5. The part or place before the face, or opposed to it, or to the forepart of a thing. He stood in front of his troops. The road passes in front of his house.

6. The most conspicuous part or particular.

7. Impudence; as men of front.

FRONT, v.t.

1. To oppose face to face; to oppose directly.

I shall front thee, like some staring ghost, with all my wrongs about me.

2. To stand opposed or opposite, or over against any thing; as, his house fronts the church.

FRONT, v.i.

1. To stand foremost.

2. To have the face or front towards any point of compass.

1913 Definition
Front (front)
n.(?)
Front
[F. frant forehead, L. frons, frontis; perh. akin to E. brow.]
  1. The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.

    Bless'd with his father's front, his mother's tongue. Pope.

    Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front. Shak.

    His front yet threatens, and his frowns command. Prior.

  2. The forehead, countenance, or personal presence, as expressive of character or temper, and especially, of boldness of disposition, sometimes of impudence; seeming; as, a bold front; a hardened front.

    With smiling fronts encountering. Shak.

    The inhabitants showed a bold front. Macaulay.

  3. The part or surface of anything which seems to look out, or to be directed forward; the fore or forward part; the foremost rank; the van; -- the opposite to back or rear; as, the front of a house; the front of an army.

    Had he his hurts before?
    Ay, on the front.     Shak.

  4. A position directly before the face of a person, or before the foremost part of a thing; as, in front of un person, of the troops, or of a house.
  5. The most conspicuous part.

    The very head and front of my offending. Shak.

  6. That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.

    Like any plain Miss Smith's, who wears s front. Mrs. Browning.

  7. The beginning.
    "Summer's front." Shak.

    Bastioned front (Mil.), a curtain connerting two half bastions. -- Front door, the door in the front wall of a building, usually the principal entrance. -- Front of fortification, the works constructed upon any one side of a polygon. Farrow. -- Front of operations, all that part of the field of operations in front of the successive positions occupied by the army as it moves forward. Farrow. -- To come to the front, to attain prominence or leadership.

  8. Of or relating to the front or forward part; having a position in front; foremost; as, a front view.
  9. To oppose face to face] to oppose directly; to meet in a hostile manner.

    You four shall front them in the narrow lane. Shak.

  10. To appear before; to meet.

    [Enid] daily fronted him
    In some fresh splendor.     Tennyson.

  11. To face toward; to have the front toward; to confront; as, the house fronts the street.

    And then suddenly front the changed reality. J. Morley.

  12. To stand opposed or opposite to, or over against as, his house fronts the church.
  13. To adorn in front; to supply a front to; as, to front a house with marble; to front a head with laurel.

    Yonder walls, that pertly front your town. Shak.

  14. To have or turn the face or front in any direction; as, the house fronts toward the east.
  15. All the works along one side of the polygon inclosing the site which is fortified.
  16. The middle of the upper part of the tongue, -- the part of the tongue which is more or less raised toward the palate in the pronunciation of certain sounds, as the vowel i in machine, e in bed, and consonant y in you. See Guide to Pronunciation, 䅆.
  17. The call boy whose turn it is to answer the call, which is often the word "front," used as an exclamation.
    [Hotel Cant]
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