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

oy." 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.

orm 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.

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, i…

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.

To reject at an examination for degrees. C. Bronté. To pluck away, to pull away, or to separate by pulling; to tear away. -- To pluck down, to pull down; to demolish; to reduce to a lower state. -- to pluck off, to pull or tear off; as, to pluck off the skin. -- to pluck up. (a) To tear up by the roots or from the f…

cus 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.