ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

pioneer &c (precursor) 64; metoposcopy † .
V. be in front, stand in front &c adj.; front, face, confront; bend forwards; come to the
front, come to the fore.
Adj. fore, anterior, front, frontal.
Adv. before; in front, in the van, in advance; ahead, right ahead; forehead, foremost; in
the foreground, in the lee of; before one's face, before one's eyes; face to face, vis-a-vis;
front a front.
Phr. formosa muta commendatio est [Lat.] [Syrus]; frons est animi janua [Lat.] [Cicero];
Human face divine [Milton]; imago animi vultus est indices oculi [Lat.] [Cicero]; sea of
upturned faces [Scott].
235. Rear -- N. rear, back, posteriority; rear rank, rear guard; background, hinterland.
occiput [Anat.], nape, chine; heels; tail, rump, croup, buttock, posteriors, backside
scut † , breech, dorsum, loin; dorsal region, lumbar region; hind quarters; aitchbone † ;
natch, natch bone.
stern, poop, afterpart † , heelpiece † , crupper.
wake; train &c (sequence) 281.
reverse; other side of the shield.
V. be behind &c adv.; fall astern; bend backwards; bring up the rear.
Adj. back, rear; hind, hinder, hindmost, hindermost † ; postern, posterior; dorsal, after;
caudal, lumbar; mizzen, tergal † .
Adv. behind; in the rear, in the background; behind one's back; at the heels of, at the tail
of, at the back of; back to back.
after, aft, abaft, astern, sternmost † , aback, rearward.
Phr. ogni medaglia ha il suo rovescio [It]; the other side of the coin.
236. Laterality -- N. laterality † ; side, flank, quarter, lee; hand; cheek, jowl, jole † , wing;
profile; temple, parietes [Lat.], loin, haunch, hip; beam.
gable, gable end; broadside; lee side.
points of the compass; East, Orient, Levant; West; orientation.
V. be on one side &c adv.; flank, outflank; sidle; skirt; orientate.
Adj. lateral, sidelong; collateral; parietal, flanking, skirting; flanked; sideling.
many sided; multilateral, bilateral, trilateral, quadrilateral.
Eastern; orient, oriental; Levantine; Western, occidental, Hesperian.
Adv. sideways, sidelong; broadside on; on one side, abreast, alongside, beside, aside; by
the side of; side by side; cheek by jowl &c (near) 197; to windward, to leeward; laterally
&c adj.; right and left; on her beam ends.
Phr. his cheek the may of days outworn [Shakespeare].
237. Contraposition -- N. contraposition † , opposition; polarity; inversion &c 218;
opposite side; reverse, inverse; counterpart; antipodes; opposite poles, North and South.
antonym, opposite (contrariety) 14.
V. be opposite &c adj.; subtend.
Adj. opposite; reverse, inverse; converse, antipodal, subcontrary † ; fronting, facing,
diametrically opposite.
Northern, septentrional, Boreal, arctic; Southern, Austral, antarctic.