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   Front , n. [F. frant forehead, L. frons, frontis; perh. akin to E. brow.]
   The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.
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   Bless'd with his father's front, his mother's tongue.
   Pope.
   
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   Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front.
   Shak.
   
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   His front yet threatens, and his frowns command.
   Prior.
   
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   The forehead, countenance, or personal presence, as expressive of character or temper, and especially, of boldness of disposition, sometimes of impudence; seeming; as, a bold front; a hardened front; hence, an attitude and demeanor intended to represent one's feelings, even if not actually felt; as, to put on a good front.
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   With smiling fronts encountering.
   Shak.
   
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   The inhabitants showed a bold front.
   Macaulay.
   
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   The part or surface of anything which seems to look out, or to be directed forward; the fore or forward part; the foremost rank; the van; -- the opposite to back or rear; as, the front of a house; the front of an army.
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   Had he his hurts before?
   Ay, on the front.
   Shak.
   
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   A position directly before the face of a person, or before the foremost part of a thing; as, in front of un person, of the troops, or of a house.
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   The most conspicuous part.
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   The very head and front of my offending.
   Shak.
   
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   That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
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   Like any plain Miss Smith's, who wears s front.
   Mrs. Browning.
   
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   The beginning. “Summer's front.” 
   Shak.
   
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   (Fort.) All the works along one side of the polygon inclosing the site which is fortified.
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   (Phon.) The middle of the upper part of the tongue, -- the part of the tongue which is more or less raised toward the palate in the pronunciation of certain sounds, as the vowel i in machine, e in bed, and consonant y in you. See Guide to Pronunciation, §10.
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   The call boy whose turn it is to answer the call, which is often the word “front,” used as an exclamation. [Hotel Cant]
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   Bastioned front (Mil.), a curtain connerting two half bastions. -- Front door, the door in the front wall of a building, usually the principal entrance. -- Front of fortification, the works constructed upon any one side of a polygon. Farrow. -- Front of operations, all that part of the field of operations in front of the successive positions occupied by the army as it moves forward. Farrow. -- To come to the front, to attain prominence or leadership.
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   Front, a. Of or relating to the front or forward part; having a position in front; foremost; as, a front view.
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   Front, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fronted; p. pr. & vb. n. Fronting.]
   To oppose face to face; to oppose directly; to meet in a hostile manner.
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   You four shall front them in the narrow lane.
   Shak.
   
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   To appear before; to meet.
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   [Enid] daily fronted him
   In some fresh splendor.
   Tennyson.
   
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   To face toward; to have the front toward; to confront; as, the house fronts the street.
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   And then suddenly front the changed reality.
   J. Morley.
   
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   To stand opposed or opposite to, or over against as, his house fronts the church.
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   To adorn in front; to supply a front to; as, to front a house with marble; to front a head with laurel.
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   Yonder walls, that pertly front your town.
   Shak.
   
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   Front, v. t. To have or turn the face or front in any direction; as, the house fronts toward the east.
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