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Situated in front; opposite; hence, opposing; adverse; antagonistic. Pope.

To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit. Her grace sat down . . . In a rich chair of state; opposing freely The beauty of her person to the people. Shak.

Placed over against; standing or situated over against or in front; facing; -- often with to; as, a house opposite to the Exchange.

The state of being placed over against; situation so as to front something else. Milton.

Placed in front of a petal.

Placed in front of a sepal.

An aspect or fronting to the east; especially (Arch.), the placing of a church so that the chancel, containing the altar toward which the congregation fronts in worship, will be on the east end.

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.

; to cajole; as, to palaver artfully. Palavering the little language for her benefit. C. Bront

, 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.

f, 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.