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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.

e 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.]

In front of; preceding in space; ahead of; as, to stand before the fire; before the house. His angel, who shall go Before them in a cloud and pillar of fire. Milton.

On the side opposite the front or nearest part; on the back side of; at the back of; on the other side of; as, behind a door; behind a hill. A tall Brabanter, behind whom I stood. Bp. Hall.

An apron or covering for the front of the person. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Having a broad, flattened front; as, the bluff bows of a ship. "Bluff visages." Irving.

rom blushes; incapable of blushing; shameless; impudent. Vice now, secure, her blushless front shall raise. Dodsley.

of the forehead. The shape of the bonnet varies greatly at different times; formerly the front part projected, and spread outward, like the mouth of a funnel.

A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.

of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China.

Impudent; immodest; shameless; having a front like brass; as, a brazen countenance. Brazen age. (a) (Myth.) The age of war and lawlessness which succeeded the silver age. (b) (Archæol.) See under Bronze. -- Brazen sea (Jewish Antiq.), a large laver of brass, placed in Solomon's temple for the use of the priests.…

four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind.

Either one of the protuberant glands, situated on the front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of some other mammalia, in which milk is secreted for the nourishment of the young; a mammma; a teat. My brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother. Cant. viii. 1.

The front transverse beam of a locomotive.

A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See Ephod.

er or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long lintel; a girder; -- used principally above shop windows. [Written also brestsummer and bressummer.]

A device attached to the breech of a firearm, to guide the eye, in conjunction with the front sight, in taking aim.