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Placed in such a position as to exhibit the top and two sides, the corner being in front; -- said of a rectangular form. Encyc. Brit. Cussans.

[Obs. & R.] The king was not more forward to bestow favors on them as they free to deal affronts to others their superiors. Fuller.

Committed with, or proceedings from, daring effrontery or contempt of law, morality, or decorum. "Audacious cruelty." "Audacious prate." Shak.

The front of an army. [Obs.] See Van.

The movable front to a helmet; the ventail.

The part opposed to the front; the hinder or rear part of a thing; as, the back of a book; the back of an army; the back of a chimney.

Stairs in the back part of a house, as distinguished from the front stairs; hence, a private or indirect way.

in the rear or behind, or in the distance, as opposed to the foreground, or the ground in front.

tch made by setting the needle back of the end of the last stitch, and bringing it out in front of the end.

The forests or partly cleared grounds on the frontiers.

A men living in the forest in or beyond the new settlements, especially on the western frontiers of the older portions of the United States. Fisher Ames.

ing, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony in front of a window. Also, a projecting gallery in places of amusement; as, the balcony in a theater.

oot (Zoöl.), a name of the European coot (Fulica atra), alluding to the bare patch on the front of the head.

A kind of stout walking shoe, laced in front. A man who uses his balmorals to tread on your toes. George Eliot.

Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.

The short, front hair combed down over the forehead, esp. when cut squarely across; a false front of hair similarly worn. His hair cut in front like a young lady's bang. W. D. Howells.

de for the driver, and two double seats on the inside arranged so that the sitters on the front seat face those on the back seat.

A fortress or fortified town, on the frontier of a country, commanding an avenue of approach.

Furnished with beams, as the head of a stag. Tost his beamed frontlet to the sky. Sir W. Scott.

The front or the back part of the frame of a bedstead. [Obs. or Dial. Eng.]