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To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face. [Obs.] All the sea-coasts do affront the Levant. Holland. That he, as 't were by accident, may here Affront Ophelia. Shak.

Face to face, or front to front; facing.

Shamelessly. [Obs.] Bacon.

One who receives an affront. Lytton.

One who affronts, or insults to the face.

In an affronting manner.

Tending to affront or offend; offensive; abusive. How affrontive it is to despise mercy. South.

The quality that gives an affront or offense. [R.] Bailey.

The act of pouring upon, or sprinkling with a liquid, as water upon a child in baptism. Specifically: (Med)

Previously mentioned; before-mentioned. Addison.

In front; face to face. -- prep. In front of. Shak.

Mentioned afterwards; as, persons after-mentioned (in a writing).

The part of the day which follows noon, between noon and evening.

A sensation or sense impression following the removal of a stimulus producing a primary sensation, and reproducing the primary sensation in positive, negative, or complementary form. The aftersensation may be continuous with the primary sensation or follow it after an interval.

Without ganglia.

The act of producing in addition. [Obs.] T. Stanley.

A heaping up; accumulation; as, aggerations of sand. [R.]

The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together. An excessive agglomeration of turrets. Warton.

ct of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.

Aggrandizement. [Obs.] Waterhouse.