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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.

Magistrates in Sparta, who with the ephori and kings, constituted the supreme civil authority.

Government by old men. [R.] Gladstone.

obs. imp. of Groan. Chaucer.

An imaginary line, or a line on a chart, marking the simultaneous development of a thunderstorm, as noted by observing the time when the thunder is heard at different places.

of or pertaining to the nose and the front of the head; as, the embryonic nasofrontal process which forms the anterior boundary of the mouth.

To confront; to oppose; to withstand. [Obs.] Milton.

Situated behind the frontal bone or the frontal region of the skull; -- applied especially to a bone back of and below the frontal in many animals. -- n.

Situated in front of the frontal bone, or the frontal region of the skull; ectethmoid, as a certain bone in the nasal capsule of many animals, and certain scales of reptiles and fishes. -- n.

g lime in appearance, and baryta in many of its properties. It is an oxide of the metal strontium.