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ng, silky, white hair along the sides, and a tuft of the same at the end of the tail. The frontal band, cheeks, and chin are white.

The upper front of the neck, next to the chin; the upper throat.

ing to, or subservient to, the sense of taste; as, the gustatory nerve which supplies the front of the tongue.

The place or honor, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front; as, the head of the table; the head of a column of soldiers. An army of fourscore thousand troops, with the duke Marlborough at the head of them. Addison.

A light, with a powerful reflector, placed at the head of a locomotive, or in front of it, to throw light on the track at night, or in going through a dark tunnel.

p stylets (mandibles and maxillæ), for piercing. In many of the species (Heteroptera) the front wings are partially coriaceous, and different from the others.

boot of a kind worn in England, in the early part of the nineteenth century, tasseled in front. Thackeray. -- Hessian cloth, or Hessians, a coarse hempen cloth for sacking. -- Hessian crucible. See under Crucible. -- Hessian fly (Zoöl.), a small dipterous fly or midge (Cecidomyia destructor). Its larvæ live between…

Having six columns in front; -- said of a portico or temple. -- n.

In the rear; -- opposed to front; of or pertaining to the part or end which follows or is behind, in opposition to the part which leads or is before; as, the hind legs or hind feet of a quadruped; the hind man in a procession.

A piece cut by butchers, esp. in pork, from either the front or hind leg, just above the foot.

Having all the teeth similar in front, as in the porpoises; -- opposed to heterodont.

the head or thorax of an insect, or the head of a reptile, or fish. (d) A sharp spine in front of the fins of a fish, as in the horned pout.

semaid's knee (Med.), a swelling over the knee, due to an enlargement of the bursa in the front of the kneepan; -- so called because frequently occurring in servant girls who work upon their knees.

lower jaw, pertaining to them; suprahyoid; submaxillary; as, the hyomental region of the front of the neck.

f several species of wild goats having very large, recurved horns, transversely ridged in front; -- called also steinbok.

ctive of short focal distance designed to work with a drop of liquid, as oil, between the front lens and the slide, so that this lens is practically immersed.

One of the teeth in front of the canines in either jaw; an incisive tooth. See Tooth.

short faces, with salient and receding angles, each face giving a flanking fire along the front of the next.

The arched middle portion of the human foot next in front of the ankle joint.

ffered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity. The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief. Savage.