adv. (a., sb.) [f. FRONT sb. + -WARD(S.]
1. Towards or in the direction of the front; also, to the front of.
1865. G. Meredith, Rhoda Fleming, xxvi. She spoke, gazing frontward all the while.
1876. S. Lanier, Poems (1884), 133. Run each road that frontward leads. Ibid. (1877), Hard Times in Elfland, 6. Drew More frontward of the mighty fire.
b. quasi-adj. Of or pertaining to the front.
1865. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., XX. xi. IX. 208. Burkersdorf, Ludwigsdorf … are frontward posts.
† c. quasi-sb. The direction towards the front.
1553. Brende, Q. Curtius (1570) 90 b. Suche as stode in the hinder partes of the battailles were ordred to turne their faces from the frontwardes; because that being in a redines euery waye, the battailles in euery place should be of like force.
2. With the front or face in a specified direction. Const. to. rare–1.
1856. Mrs. Browning, Aur. Leigh, VII. 310.
| Men define a man, | |
| The creature who stands front-ward to the stars, | |
| The creature who looks inward to himself, | |
| The tool-wright, laughing creature. |
