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g 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.

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.

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

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

The exterior line, limit, or border of a country; frontier border. [Obs.] From the river, the river Euphrates, even to the uttermost sea, shall your coast be. Deut. xi. 24.

The frontier of a country; confines. [Obs.] Shelton.

der to turn one or both wings of the enemy, or to take up a new position. -- Flanks of a frontier, salient points in a national boundary, strengthened to protect the frontier against hostile incursion. -- Flank patrol, detachments acting independently of the column of an army, but patrolling along its flanks, to secu…

Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland; as, the interior parts of a region or country. Interior angle (Geom.), an angle formed between two sides, within any rectilinear figure, as a polygon, or between two parallel lines by these lines and another intersecting them; -- called also internal angle. -- Interi…

A territorial border or frontier; a region adjacent to a boundary line; a confine; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in English history applied especially to the border land on the frontiers between England and Scotland, and England and Wales. Geneva is situated in the marches of several dominions -- France, Savoy, an…

at of duke. Originally, the marquis was an officer whose duty was to guard the marches or frontiers of the kingdom. The office has ceased, and the name is now a mere title conferred by patent.

or being at a distance from the central part, or the main body; being on, or beyond, the frontier; exterior; remote; detached.

A camp permanently intrenched, attached to Turkish frontier fortresses.

t To go the rounds of, as a sentry, guard, or policeman; as, to patrol a frontier; to patrol a beat.

. The laws which regulate the successions of the seasons. Macaulay. The herdsmen near the frontier adjudicated their own disputes, and regulated their own police. Bancroft.

border; to live near the border, or extremity. Savages . . . who skirt along our western frontiers. S. S. Smith.

petual repetition of the same epithets which we find in Homer. Pope. He had abandoned the frontiers, retiring upon Glasgow. Sir. W. Scott. Philip swore upon the Evangelists to abstain from aggression in my absence. Landor.

Being on, or towards, the van, or front. "The vanward frontier." De Quincey.