frontis
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of frontis
< Spanish, apparently alteration of frente front
Example Sentences
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From the occiput to the os frontis, his head was quite level and extraordinarily long.
From The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 by Charles Roger
Deceased sat wearily down by me, and wiped his os frontis with his major maxillary—chiefly from former habit I judged, for I could not see that he brought away any perspiration.
From Sketches New and Old, Part 4. by Mark Twain
Three of the natives who came on board, had the os frontis fractured in a terrible manner, but they were then perfectly recovered of their wounds.
From The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (1789) by Arthur Phillip
Among them we picked up part of a human skull—the os frontis with the sockets of the eyes and part of the bones of the nose still attached to it.
From The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant by Ida Lee
Poor Bill! he scarcely knew what fainting was, but a queer sensation settled in his "ossis frontis," while his ossis legso almost bent double under him, at the awful prospect of things before him!
From The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge
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