foreface

[ fawr-feys, fohr- ]

noun

1. the area of the head that is in front of the eyes: applied especially to four-legged mammals.

Word History and Origins

Origin of foreface¹

1535–45, for an earlier sense; fore- + face

Example Sentences

But it is not only an illumination of the foreface, and outer side of the soul, not only a conviction of the judgment in these things, but by virtue of that divine heat that is transmitted with the light of the gospel, the soul is purified and cleansed from its grosser nature, and so is made transparent, that the light may shine into the very inwards of the heart.

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The muzzle, or foreface, is broad, and the skull proportionately narrow, so that the whole head, when viewed from above and in front, has the appearance of equal breadth throughout.

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FACE—The face should be chiselled well and foreface long, of equal depth throughout, and well filled in below the eyes with no appearance of being pinched.

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LIPS—The lips should hang quite square in front, forming a right angle with the upper line of foreface.

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In profile the upper outline of the skull is nearly in the same plane as that of the foreface.

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