Avant: alternatives and connections

Face to face, or front to front; facing.

A combining form meaning anterior, front; as, antero-posterior, front and back; antero-lateral, front side, anterior and at the side.

A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or co…

To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly.

In front of; preceding in space; ahead of; as, to stand before the fire; before the house.

The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a na…

Chief or commander; in Spanish literature, a title of Ruy Diaz, Count of Bivar, a champion of Christianity and of the old Spanish roya…

A large, closed, four-wheeled carriage, having doors in the sides, and generally a front and back seat inside, each for two persons, a…

To march back, or to march in reversed order.

The front compartment of a French diligence; also, the front compartment (usually for three persons) of a car or carriage on British r…

A passage with only one outlet, as a street closed at one end; a blind alley; hence, a trap.

Extending far below the surface; of great perpendicular dimension (measured from the surface downward, and distinguished from high, wh…

The front of a building; esp., the principal front, having some architectural pretensions. Thus a church is said to have its facade un…

The exterior form or appearance of anything; that part which presents itself to the view; especially, the front or upper part or surfa…

The fleshy or muscular part of the side of an animal, between the ribs and the hip. See Illust. of Beef.

Journey; way; method of proceeding.

The front side; the front; esp., a stretch of country fronting the sea.

The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.