7. The beginning. "Summer's front." Shak.

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.

Front, a. Of or relating to the front or forward part; having a

position in front; foremost; as, a front view.

Front, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fronted; p. pr. & vb. n. Fronting.] 1. To

oppose face to face; to oppose directly; to meet in a hostile manner.

You four shall front them in the narrow lane.

Shak.

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