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

Shamelessly. [Obs.] Bacon.

Having two fronts. "Bifronted Janus." Massinger.

Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose (Zoöl.), the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow.

e red-breasted house sparrow of California (Carpodacus frontalis); -- called also crimson-fronted bullfinch. [Written also burrion.]

lix. 33. God will deign To visit oft the dwellings of just men. Milton. Philip's dwelling fronted on the street. Tennyson. Dwelling house, a house intended to be occupied as a residence, in distinction from a store, office, or other building. -- Dwelling place, place of residence.

of vision; hence, face; front; the presence of an object which is directly opposed or confronted; immediate presence. We shell express our duty in his eye. Shak. Her shell your hear disproved to her eyes. Shak.

To appear before; to meet. [Enid] daily fronted him In some fresh splendor. Tennyson.

To apply one's self; to set one's self; to undertake. Seeing himself confronted by so many, like a resolute orator, he went not to denial, but to justify his cruel falsehood. Sir P. Sidney.

Capable of being insulted or affronted. [R.] Emerson.

d. It is much used as an anæsthetic agent. -- Laughing goose (Zoöl.), the European white-fronted goose. -- Laughing gull. (Zoöl.) (a) A common European gull (Xema ridibundus); -- called also pewit, black cap, red-legged gull, and sea crow. (b) An American gull (Larus atricilla). In summer the head is nearly black, th…

A lemur; -- applied to several species, as the White-fronted, the ruffed, and the ring-tailed lemurs.

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

The American white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons).