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A genus of American Eocene mammals allied to the horse, but having four toes in front and three behind.

Having the front of the head, or the skull, nearly perpendicular, not retreating backwards above the jaws; -- opposed to Ant: prognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic.

To face or look (one) out of countenance; to resist or bear down by bold looks or effrontery; to brave. Shak. Having outfaced all the world. South.

or being at a distance from the central part, or the main body; being on, or beyond, the frontier; exterior; remote; detached.

To confront, or subdue, with greater scorn. Shak.

To domineer over; to affront; to treat with indignity. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A camp permanently intrenched, attached to Turkish frontier fortresses.

s, of a husband or wife; -- used of a man or a woman. The seducer appeared with dauntless front, accompanied by his paramour Macaulay.

In front; publicly. [Obs.] Spenser.

of, the parietal bones, which form the upper and middle part of the cranium, between the frontals and occipitals.

of, the parotid gland. Parotid gland (Anat.), one of the salivary glands situated just in front of or below the ear. It is the largest of the salivary glands in man, and its duct opens into the interior of the mouth opposite the second molar of the upper jaw.

more small veins which, in man, connect the portal vein with the epigastric veins in the front wall of the abdomen.

To lampoon; to satiraze. [R.] To see himself pasquined and affronted. Dryden.

boy." Dryden. -- To pass over, to overlook; not to note or resent; as, to pass over an affront.

An order passed from front to rear by word of mouth.

t To go the rounds of, as a sentry, guard, or policeman; as, to patrol a frontier; to patrol a beat.

A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap. "Run your beard into a peak." Beau. & Fl.

An outgrowth of the frontal bones, which supports the antlers or horns in deer and allied animals.

form used as a decoration over porticoes, doors, windows, etc.; also, a rounded or broken frontal having a similar position and use. See Temple.

A woman's cape; especially, a fur cape that is longer in front than behind.