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Having five columns in front; -- said of a temple or portico in classical architecture. -- n.

A four-wheeled carriage (with or without a top), open, or having no side pieces, in front of the seat. It is drawn by one or two horses.

holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in front of it. Shak.

An apron for a child to protect the front part of dress; a tier.

cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as, the jack plane; the smoothing plane; the molding plane, etc. Objective plane (Surv.), the horizontal plane upon which the object which is to be delineated, or whose place is to be determined,…

A trimming for the front of a woman's dress, made of a different material, and narrowing from the shoulders to the waist.

wheel or piston; hence, also, room for motion; free and easy action. "To give them play, front and rear." Milton. The joints are let exactly into one another, that they have no play between them. Moxon.

A slope or sloping toward the front; as, the plongée of a parapet; the plongée of a shell in its course. [Sometimes written plonge.]

A detachable share at the extreme front end of the plow body.

ecus pluto), having side whiskers. The general color is black, more or less grizzled; the frontal band is white.

ball (Billiards), to drive a ball into a pocket of the table. -- To pocket an insult, affront, etc., to receive an affront without open resentment, or without seeking redress. "I must pocket up these wrongs." Shak.

pole inserted, pointed forward. [U.S.] Poke bonnet, a bonnet with a straight, projecting front.

have been removed; as, specifically: (a) A carriage pole, a wooden bar extending from the front axle of a carriage between the wheel horses, by which the carriage is guided and held back. (b) A flag pole, a pole on which a flag is supported. (c) A Maypole. See Maypole. (d) A barber's pole, a pole painted in stripes, us…

A tuft or ball of wool, or the like, sometimes worn by soldiers on the front of the hat, instead of a feather.

To throw, as a musket, diagonally across the body, with the lock in front, the right hand grasping the small of the stock, and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder; as, to port arms. Began to hem him round with ported spears. Milton. Port arms, a position in the manual of arms, executed…

The front part of the thoracic region; the epigastrium.

In front, or on the ventral side, of the aorta.

Situated in front of any transverse axis in the body of an animal; anterior; cephalic; esp., in front, or on the anterior, or cephalic (that is, radial or tibial) side of the axis of a limb.

Situated in front of the bronchus; -- applied especially to an air sac on either side of the esophagus of birds.

Situated in front of the heart; of or pertaining to the præcordia.