[f. VAN sb.2] Situated, having place or position, in the van or front.
1820. Keats, Hyperion, I. 39. As if the vanward clouds of evil days Had spent their malice.
1823. De Quincey, Lett. Educ., iv. (1860), 77. Its vanward and its rearward man.
1877. Patmore, Unknown Eros, 41. Until the vanward billows feel The agitating shallows.
1896. Edin. Rev., July, 151. The horizon became darkened with the vanward clouds of evil days.
