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Formed with a front; drawn up in line. "Fronted brigades." Milton.

That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country; the border of the settled and cultivated part of a country; as, the frontier of civilization.

Placed on the frontiers. [R.]

A man living on the frontier.

A sweet muscadine wine made in Frontignan (Languedoc), France.

In a fronting or facing position; opposingly.

See Frontignac.

An ornamental figure or illustration fronting the first page, or titlepage, of a book; formerly, the titlepage itself.

Without face or front; shameless; not diffident; impudent. [Obs.] "Frontless vice." Dryden. "Frontless flattery." Pope.

Shamelessly; impudently. [Obs.]

A frontal or brow band; a fillet or band worn on the forehead. They shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. Deut. vi. 8.

A combining form signifying relating to the forehead or the frontal bone; as, fronto-parietal, relating to the frontal and the parietal bones; fronto-nasal, etc.

Same as Frontal, 2.

Peevish; froward. [Obs.] Clarendon.

Frostily. [Obs.] The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire. Milton.

Frozen. [Obs.] Well nigh frorn I feel. Spenser.

Frozen; stiff with cold. [Obs.] Spenser.

elation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or freezing weather. The third bay comes a frost, a killing frost. Shak.

ag with a black center, used by the United States Weather Bureau to indicate that a local frost is expected. It is used only in Florida and along the coasts of the Pacific and the Gulf Mexico.

Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing.