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frontward, -wards, adv. (a., n.)|ˈfrʌntwəd, -z|
[f. front n. + -wards.]
1. Towards or in the direction of the front; also, to the front of.
1865G. Meredith Rhoda Fleming xxvi, She spoke, gazing frontward all the while. 1876S. Lanier Poems (1884) 133 Run each road that frontward leads. 1877― Hard Times in Elfland 6 Drew More frontward of the mighty fire.
b. quasi-adj. Of or pertaining to the front.
1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xx. xi. IX. 208 Burkersdorf, Ludwigsdorf..are frontward posts.
†c. quasi-n. The direction towards the front.
1553Brende Q. Curtius (1570) 90 b, Suche as stode in y⊇ hinder partes of the battailles, were ordered to turne their faces from y⊇ frontwards.
2. With the front or face in a specified direction. Const. to. rare—1.
1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh vii. 310 Men define a man The creature who stands frontward to the stars. |